Four and Half Years On

By Stephen Fry April 3rd, 2012

Four and a Half Years On People often come up to me in the street and say, “Stephen, why don’t you pop some clothes on, there’s a good fellow.” Another thing they will ask is, “How many phones have you got with you today?” And it’s that second common question we’re going to concentrate on [...]

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