Dave Podmore

It's the most wonderfully stupid quiz format ever! Ideal comfort listening - if you can keep awake for the full thirty minutes.

It ought, ideally, to be twinned with the various D. V. Podmore series - I can hear Pod telling Andy that HE ought to have been questionmaster or
muttering darkly that "Ricey" vetoed his regular slot on the team.

Incidentally, is there anyone else out there who, after exposure to Podmore, now thinks of Tom Stoppard as "Stoppsy"? But the masterstroke was the Bishop of St Albans as "St Albansy". Sorry this is turning into a paean to Podmore ...

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There are so many great lines in Podmore which just whizz by. It would definitely be ruined by a studio audience.

One wonderful detail in the first series: Pod gets annoyed because Andy has been systematically peeling off the little labels on his apples and sticking them onto the glove compartment in Pod's car; Pod complains there are now twelve of them.

It's a masterstroke not only to have Andy as puppylike in his devotion but to have him so banal and boring that it makes you warm to the genial monster who is D V Podmore esq.