Yes, John Copper sounded as though the thing had been rather sprung on him, with no idea of who the audience was or chance to engage with them. I find Crane intensely irritating, trying far too hard to be a "character", but as Shimrod says, a durn sight better than 99% of the stuff that TV does these days.

One bit that really got my goat was when he went to Beaulieu- some local had apparently told Cobbett that the 'real' Beaullieu was a few miles further on. Crane went to find it, but didn't tell us what it was, or if it was Beaulieu what the other one was!