Why I mourn for Eddie Redmayne’s old phone | Stewart Lee

The actor's analogue handset represented, to me, almost the last link to a better time

I'm sure everyone will always remember where they were last Monday when they heard that Eddie Redmayne's analogue handset had died.

I was in a traffic jam in the Seven Sisters Road, with my two daughters, nine and five, as the quizzical tones of the Today programme's Nicholas Robinson broke the news. At his wife's insistence, it appeared the actor Eddie Redmayne had finally abandoned his analogue handset in favour of a modern iPhone.