(Perhaps focus a bit more energy on the bond markets, or is it too late for that? Ah well, best continue the relentless demonisation of asylum seekers then.)

To give myself my due, I have deleted some awful rubbish.

Don't underestimate the people who make educational programmes, I guess. In the 1970s, at any rate.

The performances are also really well judged - for what it is, it's surprisingly understated - and there are some really good jokes. They are, in fact, funnier than most of the attempts at Doctor Who sketches on actual comedy programmes.

Sikes, rather. My fancy modern spelling is not at all authentic.

Dickens definitely locates Sykes' death there (he dies in Folly Ditch), so it's not an entirely inauthentic conflation of locations...