Paul Lewis coaching Sue Perkins: First Love

[Anna]

Sue Perkins is also a lesbian, so good for BBC for equalitry for the sexes

[Richard Tarleton]

Sue Perkins is also a lesbian, so good for BBC for equalitry for the sexes

She and Sandi Toksvig have a great time teasing eachother on the News Quiz

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

My son told me that the engine sheds at the back of St Pancras in the film were the wrong colour for the supposed year !!

Well, I wonder what he thinks of the outside of King's Cross station in the Harry Potter films. Even a northerner like me knows the difference between the Midland and LNER termini.

[Panjandrum]

Something Mr Pee exells at, along with not understanding any sort of humour, unless it's clearly signaled with a couple of dozen wierd emoticons.

Quite: ahinton had me rolling in the aisles with that one.

[Mr Pee]

Well it would be a dull old world if we all laughed at the same things. Personally, I find Ahintons "jokes" about as funny as finding a drowned cat in the swimming pool, but there we go. Each to their own. It seems the hilarity that I'm missing is based upon the fact that both Sue Perkins and Sue Lawley share the same christian name. Well, excuse me whilst I pick myself up off the floor. And of course Sue Lawley has not presented DID since 2006. There's nothing like a bit of like topical humour....and that's nothing like it....

And just for you, Floozie, wierd emoticon Time:-

[Flosshilde]

Oh dear.

[ahinton]

Well it would be a dull old world if we all laughed at the same things.

It would indeed - just as it would be if all statements not meant to be taken literally and/or seriously were intended to elicit laughter.

Personally, I find Ahintons "jokes" about as funny as finding a drowned cat in the swimming pool

How many instances of either have you witnessed in order to prompt you to arrive at such a conclusion? At least no one would need to provide explanations for drowned cats in swimming pools, because most people would be too busy trying to rescue them from their plight.

Each to their own

Indeed - you to your "Guardian readers never read any other newspaper" complacency and most of the rest of us to reality, as in...

It seems the hilarity that I'm missing is based upon the fact that both Sue Perkins and Sue Lawley share the same christian name.

No one mentioned hilarity (see above), whatever it may be that you appear to be "missing" doesn't especially surprise me and I have no idea if either of the Sues whom you mention are Christians - have you?

Well, excuse me whilst I pick myself up off the floor

None of us here is any more under an obligation to excuse you as you are to pick yourself up off the floor; you can stay there if you wish.

And of course Sue Lawley has not presented DID since 2006

I know that - but she DID present DID for quite some time up to that date.

There's nothing like a bit of like topical humour....and that's nothing like it....

But then nothing has necessarily to be topical, does it? Topicality isn't compulsory, after all and, in any case, one might suggest that her presentership of DID is at least somewhat topical right now, at the time of the programme's 70th anniversary when there's been much talk of its entire history.

[ahinton]

wierd emoticon Time

That's an unusual way in which to spell "wired" (assuming that you are indeed wired, Mr. Pee) - or did you mean "weird"?

[Mr Pee]

That's an unusual way in which to spell "wired" (assuming that you are indeed wired, Mr. Pee) - or did you mean "weird"?

I did mean "weird", but since the emoticons were in response to Floozie's post, I copied that poster's strange spelling of the word. Funny how you didn't pick up on that.

[Flosshilde]

Floozie's

[Mr Pee]

Getting back to the subject, First Love, I wonder if anybody watched this week's instalment with Stephen Mangan revisiting his guitar and appearing at the Cambridge Folk Festival? In some ways, I preferred this to the Sue Perkins programme last week, even though it wasn't based around Classical music. I found it quite moving, and Stephen Mangan made some very interesting and deeply thought comments about music- and indeed about life in general- making the most of what we have while we have it.

Excellent, thought provoking stuff.