Is there honey still for tea at Grantchester?
‘I love him – I really do.’
I am taking tea with Mary Archer at the Old Vicarage, Grantchester, and she is not talking about her husband, Jeffrey. She is talking about the other man in her life: Rupert Brooke.
Dame Mary, 76, a chemist of distinction and chair of the Science Museum, is noted as a cool customer, but get her onto the subject of her favourite poet, who once lodged in the house where the Archers now live, and she throws caution to the wind.
