The Thames TV Archive on YouTube is a veritable goldmine of curios. I watched Mary Berry cook an ox’s tongue the other day, using, and I’m not joking, some weapons grade chemicals.
It’s too gross to watch though, so instead here’s a facile interview with Harry H Corbett, and an interviewer who asks terribly boring questions. That is, until Harry gets on to the war, gets all serious, then loses confidence in his point.
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
