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I forgot to mention that, if you don't have Worcester sauce, use soy sauce instead, or something similar. You just need a savoury aspect to the flavour, to balance the sweetness. You can also experiment with adding vinegar to the mix, for a bit of sharpness (bearing in mind that there's already some vinegar in the ketchup).

You wait 'til they get rid of that nasty, foreign-style decimal currency, so brutally forced upon us by evil Europhiles.

Spare ribs tonight. Overnight dry rub - cumin, smoked garlic powder, coriander seed, smoked paprika, palm sugar, thyme, chives and chilli flakes. Cooking - sprinkle with a little liquid smoke and put into the slow cooker for 3 hours. Then, place the ribs into a baking tray and glaze with BBQ sauce*. Put into the oven, turn the heat to about 180 degrees C and cook 'til the ribs are sticky. Rest until cool enough to handle. Eat. Wash the mess off your face and hands. *Basic BBQ sauce = 2 parts ketchup, 2 parts honey (or 1 part honey, 1 part black treacle) & 1 part Worcester sauce. Mix, taste and then add whatever you fancy. This time, I added some lemon juice and chipotle Tabasco.

An old favourite of mine. A light touch, but a little unsettling too.

The only downside of 'Planet Earth 2' was that it was only 6 episodes, unlike the original's 11.

'Planet Earth 2' was easily the match of the first series. The film/technology advances in the decade since the original display these amazing scenes even more vividly. Now, about 'Blue Planet 2', then. Get cracking, David!

After reading the Steve Mascord/David Collier thread, I gave this a spin...

Never understood the vanishing sock thing. Mine stay in their original pairs 'til they're worn through and are binned.

Currently watching Creature Designers: the Frankenstein Complex on Amazon Prime. A feature-length documentary about creatures/monsters and the make-up and animation that brings them to the silver screen. Very good.

These programmes prove that he's an unnecessary hanger-on to a programme that works perfectly well without him.

Dr Dre name-checked Dolemite more than once on his records, so you are spot on.

Dolemite (1975) The 'Blaxploitation' genre turned up a few real gems and a whole lot of dross. Guess which this one is? Stand-up comedian Rudy Ray Moore plays the titular Dolemite, out from prison and trying to clear his name, clean up the 'hood and take down the bad guys and crooked cops. By clean up, I mean take back control of a brothel he used to own, complete with a full staff of Karate-chopping prostitutes. As Rudy both wrote and starred in the film, Dolemite is, despite his pudgy figure, a 100% studly babe-magnet and also knows a form of Kung Fu that involves waving his foot vaguely around at waist height. The whole thing is a riot of Seventies pimp fashion and almost constant swearing. That well-known and prolific B-movie actor, the boom microphone, makes several appearances. Unlike the rest of the cast, it seems to know what it is doing. More than one 'actor' seems to deliver lines while looking off camera, presumably at cue cards they've never seen before. At one point, Dolemite delivers a jive-talk summary of the sinking of the Titanic, for no apparent reason other than he maybe needed an extra scene to pad this jive turkey to feature length, and just did a random routine from his stand-up show. Near the end, it all erupts into a mass chop-socky brawl. The difference between the trained martial artists and the rest of the cast is painfully apparent. Struggling with his rival, Dolemite is shot in the chest, but still rips his assailant's guts out with one bad-ass Judo Chop (© Austin Powers). Still, that's a less gruesome sight than the scene with the naked mayor. Astoundingly, it was successful enough to have two sequels! Here's the trailer (NSFW on grounds of language and brief boobage)

This just popped up on Twitter. Now that's a fan!

Just another amazing episode. We're spoilt, really.

What make is it?

Is it fixable?

Tonight on BBC4 (well tomorrow morning, actually), another chance to see Northern Soul: Living for the Weekend.

It was pretty much the way the later series of 'Top Gear' were going before the Clarkson exit. Recycling old ideas in a new location, and the "playing at soldiers" bit took up most of the show.

One for the metalheads - there's a live Metallica session on the BBC red button tonight, from 9:30pm.

Roddy also treated us to the excellent 'They Live'. "I have come to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I am all out of gum"

Well, that didn't last long. Martin's certainly playing the weasel game.

Yes, he had to find over fifty of them to win a bet with Danny Wallace, and he went abroad as well.

He's a good finder of odd connections, which is why his shows often end up somewhere completely different to where they started. I first came across him with the series 'Are you Dave Gorman?', which got a lot of fun from a very basic idea.

That's going to be a tough and upsetting watch for a lot of people.