The Mausoleum Club Forum

Yes, I think that's how I remember it. It's got to be a 70s joke, surely. After Rupert Murdoch bought The Times , could it still be described as "read by the people who run the country"? Well the Macshane book was published in the late 70s and as I said above the routine is in it, so that's surely ...

According to Graham McCann's 'A Very Courageous Decision,' it is as you say a contentious topic, and certainly it was used by Dave Allen on TV and his stage show in the mid-1970s, but McCnn wrote that 'authorship has also been attributed (without any specific date or place) to the former TUC Preside...

Thanks for replying, Charles. Great stuff.

What a great-sounding package! I can't wait to get it. Any possibility of further Paul Temple recordings, or re-recordings, in the foreseeable future?

Yes, very enjoyable.

Yes, and it seems particularly perverse when he's involved in the remake that the book was designed to help publicise. The only one involved not to support it.

We'll never know now what Shughie went off into the pantry to collect in Crossroads.

ITV are currently relying a remarkable amount on Stephen Mulhern - a weirdly childish man who seems to have emerged via a timeslip from Junior Showtime - and Keith Lemon - a fictional character - to host their prime time shows. It's depressing. I think there's potential there for a variety-style sho...

In fact it was the subject of David Jason blocking his old shows that drew my attention to this thread. Quite a few years ago now I can recall attempting to clear the rights on some clips of David Jason in A Touch of Frost to use in a feature about his brother, Arthur White. If I remember correctly...