Bill Dare

So John Lloyd moved on in 1986 and various producers took his place.

Some quite famous names, Jeffrey Perkins, who we talked about in connection with The Fast Show, David Tyler, Bill Dare was the one who really kind of put his mark on it.

Perhaps more seriously, when Margaret Thatcher stepped down as Prime Minister, the show lost a bit of its kind of identity.

And at first they found John Major very hard to satirise as he was this grey, boring man who literally had run away from the circus to join the firm of accountants.