Created by David Croft and Jimmy Perry, it seemed a natural follow-up to their smash hit Dad's Army. If you are in Australia or New Zealand (DVD Region 4), note that almost all DVDs distributed in the UK by the BBC and 2entertain are encoded for both Region 2 and Region 4. Good Morning Britain viewers demand Richard Madeley be dropped as he asks guest who lost 21 relatives when their house was bombed in Gaza: 'How close were you to your brothers?

The councillor tried some patronising taunts ("We are not interrupting, it is the ladies each time"); you really hoped and trusted MacGregor glared at the word "ladies". He might, in fact, have made it a hat-trick of signature sitcom roles had it not been for his unrivalled ability to lose friends and irritate people.We'll also learn what went on behind the scenes in the famous series of Cinzano adverts he made with Joan Collins in the mid 1970s. The arrival of each floor had seemed to trigger a new and darker shade in the colour chart of his emotions: 1 - cerise; 2 - rose; 3 - crimson; 4 - ruby. I’ve reached that point now I think, and I wish my successor as much enjoyment out of the programme as I’ve had. It wasn’t long before she joined Maurice Grosse for a night-time vigil while the family was asleep: "After the girls went to bed, there was a very loud crash upstairs in their bedroom.

The panel discussion is interspersed with archive audio and narration of the event by the presenter. But it wasn’t until 1975 that the BBC dared to put Angela Rippon at the helm of its flagship 9 O’ Clock News.Perry, glancing at Croft's angry red face, knew that something had gone horribly wrong, and, as Rossiter launched into a repetition of his rant from the lift, Perry soon realised why. Suddenly things just took off, and just started flying around the room… I got hit by a Lego brick over my right eye. He didn't notice that David had gone really, really quiet, or that I was repeatedly trying and failing to get a word in. While others understand the corporate ethos that requires presenters to flex their intellectual muscle in bruising confrontations with the powerful, MacGregor deliberately adopts a softly-softly approach.

Like Desert Island Discs, which it replaces in the schedules when it is off-air, the format here quietly encourages an intimacy and frankness from guests. The show was conceived in 1980 by French librettist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schonberg. Contrary to the snide whisperings of at least two of her editors and several co-presenters, Sue MacGregor is not dim.Argentina condemns Israel's bombing on Gaza refugee camp that killed more than 50 people as Bolivia severs. Instead of remaining open to the kind of actorly invention that had first drawn him to someone like Rossiter, the experience would have the effect of closing him up to further thoughts of experimentation. By the tenth anniversary, the celebrations lasted for a week - Woman’s Hour’s birthdays have always been a time to draw attention to the programme. Janet sums it up by saying, "I was used and abused – there was levitation, there was the voices and then there was… the curtain that wrapped itself around my neck, which was quite life-threatening for me, and it brought it home to me – that this could kill you.

Passenger from hell who yelled 'white children are easy to rape because white men are p******' is jailed for.Once they were out of the lift and on to the fourth floor, therefore, Croft, his lips clamped tight together like a clapperboard, walked silently to his office, with Rossiter still talking animatedly behind him. Also joining Sue will be Andrea Leadsom MP, who in 1995 managed a team of bankers at Barclays who supplied finance for Barings investments, Nicholas Edwards then an investment banker with Barings in London, the administrator of Barings Alan Bloom, and John Gapper of the FT.