YET ANOTHER early vehicle for Stephen Fry, this time in the guise of not-at-all-Roger-Cook-libelling investigative journalising incompetent David Lander, with a series of hard hitting reports on cowboy builders and sanction-busting trade agreements, and most famously a series-long snoop into attempts to build a third London airport in Birmingham. Also yet another example of BBC TV’s boat-missing when it came to late eighties radio transfers, winding up on Channel 4 as This Is David Lander.
Delve Special
1984 to 1987
TV CREAM SAYS: "DID KEVIN WATTS COMMIT THE ARCHIBALD ART GALLERY ROBBERY, OR
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Thursday, 19.30, 01.05, BBC4For the first time in a while, two consecutive episodes, so it’s a completely different line-up to the last time and some belated debuts for Ian Dury and Sham 69 who we’d have otherwise seen two weeks ago, in a classic Pops juxtaposition with another Cilla flop and the first appearance of a record that, even skipping all the Savile and Travis episodes, you’re going to hear a hell of lot over the next few months.
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