26. Bedouin New Romantic (Eric of Arabia)

Published: July 24, 2019, 5 a.m.

b"A double scoop of jalopy please and a sprinkling of asides this week as an incapacitated Lovejoy has the oddest dream\\u2026\\n\\nJoin us as we delight in Bert Kwouk\\u2019s presence and marvel at the NHS in the 90s when it was clearly fine to have any amount of visitors at all sorts of hours and your doctor would drop everything to do keyhole surgery on a leaf, a plaster cast, a terracotta pig etc if it made you happy. \\n\\nWe meet a space invader (not the good kind that Polly likes), discover we don't know anything about Lawrence of Arabia and wonder if there\\u2019s anything the Chinese didn\\u2019t invent as we discuss this utterly bonkers episode which has two storylines for the price of one. Helen endorses it.\\n\\nIt's our (well, Em's) first ever 10 out of 10 so listen out for the special jingle and let us know - were Eric and Natasha \\u201cworking on the bike\\u201d or just really good pals?\\n\\nThe original Lovejoy episode was written by Steve Coombes & Dave Robinson and directed by Ian McShane (of course!)\\n\\nAntique of the Week: Netsuke"