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Article: Turning Four into Five.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2003
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Byline: VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH
THE combination of heavy puddings, ported Stilton and endless Seventies' TV repeats led to some decidedly odd dreams over Anthraxmas. In one, a Dennis Potter script was rewritten by his sister Beatrix and became The Singing Squirrel, with a psoriatic snake exuviating its skin during a rubdown by Nurse Badger, to the strains of the Roy Fox orchestra. In another, the Derek and Clive tapes were reenacted by Cook and Moore (that's Robin Cook and Patrick Moore), with the gnomic politician boasting about the many things he'd had stuck in his beard, while the rumpled astronomer idly fondled his eight-inch refractor. And after seeing a rerun of ...