Last of the Summer Wine

You made a reference to, you know, an old sitcom earlier.

I was sort of put in mind of one of the group, what was her name on Last of the Summer Wine? Norma

Batty.

Norma

It was literally pottering across.

It came, you sort of did this sort of, it was almost like sort of, um, Last of the Summer Wine-

Yeah

...

She was a person that people used as an example to be an old person.

I suppose most famous for being in Last of the Summer Wine in the 90s.

She was also on Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series, which was really great.

But she's obviously had a whole career before that, lots of theatre stuff, loads of films in the 50s by the looks of it.

So that's my answer.

I think that's a great shout.

I watched Last of the Summer Wine a little bit in the late 90s, early 2000s for whatever reason, Sunday night TV.

And I remember her character's catchphrase was drink your coffee, I think.

Nigel Hess did a lot of the incidental stuff, like a lot of the creepy things like that.

And then when I looked him up, he'd done like Ballykiss Angel, Last of the Summer Wine.

And again, like keeping it like very... sort of TV based with other work it didn't seem like people had jettisoned off to do like these big Hollywood productions or anything it felt like this when you watch this it feels very English really English and I think what I'm trying to say here is the size of the production and the way it sort of goes left right investigation like those slaughtering things it seems far more far more American-ish to me.

Like it should have been a bigger production.

I'm reminded of two things there.

One was an episode of Last of the Summer Wine where Cleggie was talking about how Hitler's girlfriend had a hand in designing the uniforms and Comper goes, Eva Braun? And he went, Eva Braun or black? Whichever colour.

But the other thing, do you remember this? Do you remember on Swap Shop, kids used to bring the collections in? There was a teenager who collected Nazi memorabilia on the Swap Shop.

I think it's on YouTube, that clip.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because once a year, they also have the Last of the Summer Wine Festival.

Oh, wow.

where if any of the cast are still alive and they have nothing to do.

down a hill.

Yeah, in a bath tub.

Yeah, I watched a bit of Last of the Summer Wine just because I was like, oh, I wonder if I'll recognize any of it.

I can't believe how shit TV used to be.

But honestly.

It's like getting the cast of Last of the Summer Wine on, isn't it?

[laughs]

There's just things missing and-