Richy Johnson, 30, a sales manager from Wandsworth, and Francesca Baker-Brooker, 36, a PR and marketing consultant from Hoxton, ask themselves this ‘what-if’ Covid question all the time, but for very different reasons. In Johnson’s case, it gave him the time he needed to get to know his then-housemate and now-girlfriend Laura, 31, an audit manager, who he might have dismissed on an app or a brief date because of her opposite political views — a fact he and Laura discuss in episode four of London Love Stories with Katie Strick, a new podcast from The Standard re-telling some of the most extraordinary tales of romance from across the capital, released today.
