Sunday, September 16, 2018

OAPs

Mary Beard returned to host a new series of Front Row Late on BBC2 on Friday, this time with a small, live audience. Her topic was age and the arts. Joining Mary, 63, as she learned on-air about how to present chat shows (or not), were Joan Bakewell, 85, Richard Wilson, 82 and Baroness Young of Hornsey, 67. It featured a recorded interview with Clive James, 78.

Strange that the show's editor, Tanya Hudson, didn't light upon another key elderly figure and gatekeeper in the arts, Alan Yentob, 71. Al was out and about in Piccadilly on Thursday night ...

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