h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Some BBC 7 listeners have been disappointed by the late removal or postponement of Alistair Beaton's Loose-Ends-with-satire from the late 1990s "The Beaton Generation", on Monday night. This show first came on right after New Labour got in and "Week Ending" was stopped, meaningful wink.

It was a particular shame to lose TBG, which I will admit tends more to send me to sleep (no bad thing after 11pm), because the election wasn't on after all till yesterday, although we all knew it was going to - well, it's all very complicated.

("The News Quiz" repeats from about the same period are off for the duration, too - and maybe after. I listen mostly for the cuttings.)

But anyway, I was quite interested to see BBC Four TV go ahead and re-show "Steptoe and Son" in an episode called "My Old Man's A Tory", in which Harold Steptoe holds a Labour committee meeting. I didn't watch all of the show and I must admit that honours seemed evenly divided at the point when I switched off, although if the Liberals got a look in then I missed it (if what's-his-name and Mark Lawson's commentary doesn't qualify).

And tonight on Four we apparently are getting a "World In Action" documentary about Lady Thatcher. Or, now that it's been pointed out, perhaps we won't.

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