The news on TV has changed since I was a kid

The audience will be mainly brown eyed with dark hair.

Richard Baker had brown eyes and dark hair; so did Anna Ford.

I'm glad they don't go on about Terry Waite any more.

He had his own radiator did you know....

What's green and 8 foot tall? Terry Waite's lawn.

I miss Reginald Bosanquet

In a similarly retro vein:

What's brown and 8 foot tall?

The bird in "the joy of s*x"'s lawn.

Trevor McDonut had black hair

Only 6 minutes until the BBC 10pm "let all refugees in" advert.

When I was a lad the news was a summary of what had been happening in the UK,now it is an emotional pull of the heartstrings anywhere in the world session and if we can all siwtch off feeling guilty it will have been worthwhile.

Maybe I'm showing my age but in my day there was a lot more international coverage, mostly about the Empire of course, the boer war and so on. In those days delicate flowers like Jemima Corbyn wouldn't even have got the vote, damn those suffragettes.

Eeeeeh ba gum JC, you put us all to shame there,did they show the relief of Lady Smith on your TV or was that another sort of channel ?

Well in those days women had to be in bed by 9pm or you were allowed to admonish them with a spanking. So when they went to bed the men would sit in the drawing room in our smoking jackets watching "Strumpetstation" on the BBC, puffing furiously on our pipes and cigars, trying not to give in to the devils temptation to touch our contrifibularied whopsadasies.

We didn't need to stand to attention for the national anthem, we already were.

The main reason we came down so hard on the miners strike was when the coal shortages lead to BBC shutdown at 8:30, and we had to go back to looking at pictures of native women with their bits out in the encylopedia britanica.