Ceci n'est pas un pipe bomb

The Surreal IRA.

No-Know Nanette

Affecting documentary series for BBC 1. Not-so-famous-these-days actress Nanette Newman agrees to let the cameras film her struggle with the incipient onset of Alzheimer's. Each episode concludes with Nanette in the Mastermind chair. John Humphries asks her a succession of questions whose answers she can't remember in an engaging attempt at scientifcally gauging the loss of her mental faculties. Fiona Bruce presents with a face set to Concerned, going simperingly-pleased-with-itself at the edges.

Bough's Breakfast Blog #1

Important here to make absolutely certain I've picked the right dispenser, a little lesson learned from Nationwide days when I shared a bedroom in Belgium with Bob Wellings on a programme trip. As I lay in my bed, he went into the bathroom and started cleaning his teeth with my athlete's foot powder. The choking noise was amazing. I thought he was dying.


Bough, F., Bough's Breakfast Book (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1984), p 98