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[George 1978]

Great tribute to the man on Radio 4's Last Word.

[George 1978]

I am going to write to Tesco and Asda's Head Offices explaining that I have Asperger Syndrome, anxiety, and panic attacks (including photocopied evidence) and ask them if that is proof that I am unable to wear a face mask in a supermarket - it will be interesting what their replies will be....

[George 1978]

Were they actually published as books?...

[George 1978]

Free binder with part one, cf Orbis or Marshall Cavendish....

[George 1978]

This is a bit like Desert Island Discs, isn't it?

Difficult one, but I would choose something by Roald Dahl....

[George 1978]

I assume that it was not connected to the MB Games "middle class family" board game, the Game of Life?

Sounds like a biology, botany or zoology themed magazine. No I don't remember it....

[George 1978]

Katy Hill in around 2002....

[George 1978]

I had in my mind a PIF which had a clothes horse (or "airer", pronounced "era" by my late mother) with clothes hanging on it which was too close to a fire or something - could that be the same one?

[George 1978]

I get noise above my head as well - it happens to often that I have got used to it....

[George 1978]

I am just a few years too young for sheltered housing - I am looking at moving from the communal jungle I am in at the moment to a dwelling with my own front door so that my post doesn't feel half a mile away when it is delivered.

[George 1978]

The snooker from Ally Pally - Wilson v Wilson. Wilson won.

[George 1978]

It was a pain in the backside when that happened - you don't get that with weekly magazines or daily newspapers. I assumed that the stores like WHSmith had a change of heart and decided not to be lumbered with selling it all year round....

[George 1978]

I have got the snooker on BBC 2 from Ally Pally and both players are called Wilson - Kyren and Gary. I can't remember any professional match where two players with the same surname have played against each other, although I am sure it has happened in the past.

Steve Davis must have played...

[George 1978]

I think that like a lot of people, it was only the Grand National which would give mainstream interest to the public....

[George 1978]

Billy Joel for one - I have to switch the radio off when Uptown Girl comes on. How did that get to number one originally?...

[George 1978]

Regarding the publisher, it was either Marshall Cavendish or Orbis that used to do those "free binder with part one" partworks in which WHSmith used to stop selling after the fourth issue.

I would guess that Orbis was the publisher but it is just a guess....

[George 1978]

I live close to the top of a block and have no lift! To be fair, it is only four storeys high....

[George 1978]

Yes, Citizen 2000 was what it was called. Channel 4 recognised the fact that anyone born in the same year that the channel first went on the air in 1982 would become 18 year of age (and therefore would become an adult) by the year 2000. I believe that it was another project which was abandoned, possibly...

[George 1978]

Sadly, I think that Apted's death will mean the end of the project - also, the fact that series that took an interest Apted's work such as World in Action are no longer around. Can you imagine that ITV Tonight series on Thursday evenings continuing the series?

The problem is that things...

[George 1978]

I am glad that Casualty has come back to Saturday nights - the coronavirus storyline adds realism to the series at the moment, although I was concerned that it would feel that it may be too satirical, ironic or like a parody, but on the other hand, at this moment in time, it would feel odd and unrealistic...