Don't kid yourself Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about.

That little piano arpeggio is pure Morricone.

Given Adams' infinite universe ideas about possibility, it's not much of a stretch that Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged starts to expand his hobby into fictional worlds. Anyone a dab hand at fanfiction who wants to give this a go?

I was lucky enough to have parents who were big fans of the guy, it really is a shame that so few people my own age are aware of a lot of his work, given the influence it had on British comedy.

I've only seen clips of Q before, but I find it hard to go back to the Goon Show for similar reasons. Which is a shame, because I really do love Spike and co.

Yeah, regardless of the historicity of blackface being something other than minstrelsy it's pretty obvious that in the whole revival movement that it's more to do with the casual racism of the 19th to mid 20th (and as you point out, well beyond that point) century when modern troupes use it, even if it is in the…

I was once on holiday in Prague and heard the distinctive sound of morrising, followed it to the source and there was a troupe of dancers from the little town in the High Peak where I grew up dancing with blacked up faces. Small world. Pseudo-folk tradition can be pretty ridiculous.