in the company of

Audiences are happy to spend time in the company of a celebrity protagonist.

When we went to bed that night I tried to explain, to myself as much as to him, how I had managed to isolate myself so fully, while in the company of people who love me and would be mortified to learn that I was unable to ask them for the smallest of help.

If a politician claimed that he had never been unfaithful to his wife, you would repeat that, but then maybe indicate that he had been seen “in the company of” another woman once or twice, hinting at his unfaithfulness.

It places him in the company of the many truthtellers of the Black Radical Tradition.

When Pope resumed on Saturday on 103 and in the company of Harry Brook, the home side were in fast-forward from the outset.