SF0177 The End of the Affair

SF0177 The End of the Affair

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By the laws of statistics, most romantic relationships will end. It’s sad but inevitable. So here are some anti-Valentine’s-Day songs, if you like. (We are, after all, an alternative music podcast.) A couple of years ago we did a pro-romance Valentine’s Day episode, though – check it out in the episodes list – which was a celebration of this Hallmark occasion.

And this is the second in our sequence of episodes with a Graham Greene novel as its title. I’ve been perusing his bibliography and debating whether there should be a third in the trilogy. Some candidates:

• England made me
• The heart of the matter
• Travels with my aunt
• Our man in Havana
• The quiet American
• The Ministry of Fear

I rather think either of the last two has their nose in front.

Despite all of the above I do wish everybody a very happy Valentine’s Day. I know for some people it’s an important day in the year. Personally, we’ve never celebrated it and somehow stayed together for 35 years. (And yet oddly, I do regard myself as quite romantic. Maybe I’m self-deluded.) Less forgivably, we both also forget our wedding anniversary each year. Thank goodness both of us do.