Sir Terry Leahy, former CEO of Tesco, turned up on Desert Island Discs today. I enjoyed hearing about his working-class roots in Liverpool, and there was a neat story about paying his kids to snitch on his wife’s forays into Waitrose. No sign, though, of Fascinating Aida. Too bad.

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