With regard to the music by Max Harris, like Will Fly I also bought the record many, many years ago.

I started using it as the theme tune for a bilingual (Manx Gaelic and English) programme on Manx Radio called 'Traa dy liooar'. About a month after that, it cropped up in that television advert - it was Bob Mortimer doing the ad, I think, but, like Malcolm Smith, I don't know what the product was. Ah, the power of advertising.

'Traa dy liooar' is Manx Gaelic for 'time enough', so the opening and closing with its tick-tocking seemed just right.

In fact, I'm using the music again for an hour-long version of 'Traa dy liooar', this time all in Manx Gaelic - Manx Radio AM (AM1368) or at www.manxradio.com (and it's also available for a week after first broadcast in the Listen Again feature), for all you many speakers of Manx Gaelic out there.

Lhiats,

Bobby Bob