Immensely capable, immensely clearsighted, immensely articulate [which could describe Isobel herself] – she was buried in a £5,000 Zandra Rhodes dress stolen from Harrods – the women were slowly poisoned by the arsenic – she founded the Associated Prigs – a royal princess unlike any other – wondered aloud ‘that any woman wants to marry anybody’ – the 40 thieves, Britain’s first organised crime syndicate – some of her male colleagues regarded her as a ‘meddling woman’ but she wasn’t going to let that stop her – and for a bonus, mid-recording, Isobel’s cat Bosun crashes the party – what’s not to like…