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I approve of whoever added that tiny detail - the costume designer, I suppose.

Repeats of the previous series starting early tomorrow morning https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01fj94w

He's hilarious. Did you spot Tommy almost laughing in the scene between them in the distillery? My husband has just been running it again.

When Jessie took her coat off in the pub (episode 4) I thought I saw a dress shield in her cardigan. If so, it was a tiny authentic detail, but did anyone else see it? I wonder which pub they went to. I don't know if the Richmond was there in the 1920s!

And those large round loaves of soda bread they used to sell (Scofa Scone??). They were sold a quarter at a time.

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