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Yes, that was a good one! Also the Stechford Communist Party. It adds another layer of something to hear all these references to places that we know, and in my case had relatives. I was trying to think where the Stechford branch would have held meetings. I also had relatives in Watery Lane.

From a Rep programme from 1933.

That was a tense episode!

I've read about this; it was orange but turned red when applied, I think.

A bit worrying!

You can still buy Zam-Buk.

Has anyone tasted tonic wine? I imagine it as being very sweet, like Harvey's Bristol Cream , perhaps. Amazingly, the Sanatogen one is still sold. My parents used to take a Sanatogen powder that you mixed with hot milk. I don't know why they took it, but you can still buy it at Boots, if it's...

I had never heard of this, but it's at Birmingham University, and there was an item about it on Front Row (Radio 4) on 5th July. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/lapworth-museum/visit/index.aspx

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-speaks-raza-hussain I hope the link works. It's a video of a poem by Raza Hussain inspired by a painting in the Art Gallery.

The hair might have been piled up over a pad of some kind?

I once had a vegetarian pate sandwich upstairs at Prana (which might at that time have been Holland & Barrett), and had to ask if they were sure there was no meat in it, because it really tasted like meat! I don't remember a lot about the bread etc. that they sold. There used to be something...

You're right about Holland & Barrett, Lady P. I think I might have the John Yudkin book, or perhaps he wrote another one? I've got some cookery books from the Vegetarian Society that I've had since the 1970s or 80s, and they're so grim - very plain in appearance, and also the recipes. I also...

I was thinking about Prana again today for some reason, and I think they used to sell their own ready-to-heat tofu burgers, which were very good.

Steven Knight (creator of the programme) is on the radio now, talking about one of his heroes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pf09d

That's how we used to eat them, but I think we used a straight pin! In one of Nigel Slater's books, he describes his father eating a pomegranate with a pin - I thought: well, didn't every one?!

And all those amazing hats!

Yes, I really liked maxis. You must be very adept to have altered a coat, Viv. That's tailoring!

Around 1970 I had a maxi dress from C & A for a school friend's 18th birthday party. It had a cream background with a pattern of broken-up circles in orange and gold, and the top was a bit smocked. It cost £3.00, which was probably a lot for my parents in those days (at the time I didn't realise...

I should have said in the Piccadilly Arcade.