After a few queries, presenter Dame Jenni Murray said: "Just one other thing, Jilly. You suggested in the book an affair might blow over if you turn a blind eye. How useful did you find your own advice when Leo strayed in the Nineties?"
An embarrassing nine seconds of silence followed, which ended only when Dame Jenni tentatively asked: "Hello?" Mrs Cooper replied, "Hello", before saying: "I don't want to talk about it."
Pressed further, she said: "When you are confronted by something you have to say, 'Please stop this'."