The best episode was clearly The Springfield Files.

Although the other Saturday morning TV advert about learning to swim involved an Australian artist/TV presenter in a pair of budgie smugglers in a pool with a load of kids. Later in life he was sent to prison on multiple sexual assault charges against 14 year old and 16 year old girls.

To be fair if it had been the other Bill it would have been much bigger news.

Well we were encouraged to…

Pleasance makes a great, sinister Blofeld, but it’s not his most sinister role, as anybody watching Saturday morning TV in 70s Britain will tell you...

There are some extremely disturbing scenes over its three seasons, but the occasional injection of humour, and a ton of heart, make it one for the ages. Line of Duty is pretty good, with the quality varying a little from season to season, but Happy Valley is peerless, with Sarah Lancashire proving herself on a par…

This is giving me a lot of “Colin From Accounts” vibes. In fact - just forget about this film and go find where you can stream “Colin From Accounts”.

That pretty much nails it.  If they wanted an unsubtle sitcom performer to work with the existing cast, they shouldn’t have cast Helen Baxendale.

Definitely. And the writers also need to take their share of the blame. The wrong name set up was ridiculous - nobody would change a name like that when repeating what is being said to them. There could have been a much more elegant way to achieve the same thing (perhaps with some personal vows). But it was…

He’s not a big name in the UK. I came to him indirectly - via Alan Jackson’s Five O’Clock Somewhere - and my love of a Hawaiian shirt and a tequila-based cocktail is probably as much of an attraction as his music. And I was always a bit unsure of whether his fan base were slightly inclined towards the reactionary.…

Derry Girls is a work of genius.

OK , so I was slightly exaggerating.

I think we used to call it “free trade”.

No and yes.

“And yet you’re in the grays, champ.”

What you learned was wrong.

The atomic bomb created at Los Alamos was a form of nuclear bomb. For some reason, the common usage moved from “atomic” to “nuclear” when the H bomb was developed, but they are both nuclear weapons. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons involved nuclear fission, the H bomb, nuclear fusion.

It’s pretty much the same as the list above.

Not bad. But the top 2 need reversing and Immigrant Song is way too low.  I’d also have Battle of Evermore higher.

Also, Round Ireland With a Fridge. But the Moldovans book is my favourite.  I bought it at an airport while waiting for a delayed flight, and came very close to finishing it before my plane took off.