Ah! We struck lucky with our celebrity guests.

Peter Mullan. Who did you get?

Peter Mullan!

I thought it might be Limmy or Mark Bonnar, but we were more than happy with Mullan. What a show, it’s so much fun.

Peter Mullan! Who did you get?

That was incredible.

Proper journalism is alive and well, Gareth.

"Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips!"

I've always assumed that was a - possibly made-up - soft drink. It's not, it's real, and it's a cocktail.

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Anyway, enjoy the book. My review will be published in The Big Issue soon. G'night.

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I picked up on that too, it's one of the book's great strengths. A lively cavalcade of no-fucks-given indiscretion.

There are, of course, *loads* of brilliant and talented people making programmes for CBBC and CBeebies these days. But as one anonymous contributor to the book says, "It’s like trying
to swim with your hands and feet tied, with a weight round your middle." The TV industry has changed so much.

Okay. I've just finished reading Richard Marson's Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television, and I really can't recommend it enough. A celebration of, and elegy for, an incredible epoch in which dedicated vocational programme-makers were given the freedom to innovate and experiment.

Absolutely.

It is, but you lose so much great stuff in the 50 minute version. I demand unfiltered Billy.

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