This year the BBC turns 100. Fundamental to Britain and funded by licence fee payers, the BBC has garnered a worldwide reputation for quality. For this special post highlighting the highlights of the corporation's massive contribution to television, I've decided to...
Highlights: 1 – Gina Yashere on Concorde: “I was gutted when that went bust as I was saving up for ages to get a fight on there. Still, it’s not all bad as I can get 743 easyJet flights with that money!” 2 – Debra Stevenson’s excellent Margaret Thatcher impersonation...
• How many different strains of contagious human viruses were there in the audience? Six: the Dustmen suffered from tattoo measles; bigoted arthritis afflicted the WI; the Entertainers all had that forced jollity which masks the latter stages of a fatal clinical...
• If hired by unscrupulous estate agents, how quickly could Anne Robinson’s ruminating jaws clear the Chinese countryside of bamboo causing the protected panda to become extinct? 19 days. • The number of mediaeval castles that fell to enemies when built on the peak of...