The irrelevance of this is that in an effort to beef up my knowledge of ye olde Roman times I have been watching a series fronted by Larry Lamb on Channel 5 entitled something along the lines of "Rome: The First Superpower". Now, I can't remember ever having watched anything on Channel 5 before - for the benefit of colonial readers, this is a terrestrial TV channel in the UK that has been owned for much of its life by a pornographer and whose programmes have generally been even more downmarket than that would suggest - but this is actually rather good.
For a glove puppet, Lamb is a pretty impressive presenter, fully engaged with the subject and asking sensible questions of the experts involved. The last programme I saw was on the subject of Tiberius Gracchus, the Tribune who stood up for the poor against the rich, ["Good God" says you-know-who "That's a second link back to the previous post - you're on fire."] and Lamb also showed himself to have his heart politically in the right place. Good stuff.
Shari Lewis and her sidekick Lampchop were a big part of my childhood, and later in life (for her and me) her show was part of my own children's childhood years. I would love to have seen Lambchop interviewing experts on the Roman Empire.
ReplyDeleteI'm late getting here - apologies. Yeah, Lambchop. Your actual Larry the Lamb, I think, was on radio - the old BBC childrens' hour - I was very young - I can only remember that he had a very silly voice (as he would, being a lamb - they obviously researched these things) and a friend named Dennis (no idea what species he was), and was always in trouble with the mayor. No doubt there were dark imperialist overtones. Did that Larry the Lamb ever make it onto TV (I don't mean the guy with the Romans)?
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