For Your Consideration

British comedian Rik Mayall of the Young Ones and The New Statesman reads Evelyn Waugh's first novel Decline And Fall on BBC Radio 2 tomorrow.
You can, of course, listen via the internet.
Again and again the BBC has proved itself to be a truly irreplaceable source for great programming. Those who criticize it - and their dreary, whining number are legion - should be spanked to death.
(BTW - if you want to argue about the licence fee I will argue about the licence fee - it IS the best way to fund television by a country mile.)

Comments

[MsRandom]

At the risk of you never speaking to me again, I must confess that as a child devoid of culture, Rik Mayall found a place in my heart with his role in Drop Dead Fred. The mere mention of his name still makes me giggle.

[stephenesque]

I also saw that film, believe it or not.
Great idea, I thought, very poor execution.

[Andrew]

This is slightly off subject, but a day or two ago National Review Online reprinted William Buckley's classic obituary on Waugh. Anyone who has not read it should do so; if you have read it, it is very much worth re-reading. We owe a great debt to God's little jellyfish, and also to WFB.