This week’s View From Over The Hill finds Miriam and Llewela musing on rejection. When Alan Rickman told Miriam to F… off, when Llewela missed her chance with Tommy Lee Jones, and how one romance came to a smelly end.

Miriam O’Reilly is a journalist and former presenter on programmes like Woman’s Hour and Countryfile but is probably best known for taking on and winning an ageism case against the BBC rather than the 28 year award winning career she had there. These days she mostly spends her time dancing the Argentine tango.

LLewela Bailey notched up a career in broadcasting lasting 40 years. Best known for being “the girl off the telly”, she was the main anchor woman for ITV Central News for two decades. Llewela has now hung up her earpiece and enjoys family life as a clapped-out mother of several.