Remember the BBC 2 Blues Night? Do I ever! I spent the whole night armed with bottles of beer and a cassette recorder and a hand held mike, and I kept pouring the beer down myself and the cassettes into the recorder. Alas and alack that I didn't have a video recorder in those days. As I remember it, they had only just come onto the market in those days and they were hideously expensive and decidedly unreliable.

Would that the Beeb could show enough initiative to do something like that again, instead of those god-awful reality shows they keep showing.