16. French Connection (National Wealth)

More embarrassed aristocracy (well, film aristocracy - Jean Kent!) this week as Lovejoy leaps to Madeleine Gilbert’s rescue when she falls foul of chimpanzee death duties. Yes, really. Lots of lovely peril for us to enjoy in this high scoring episode as Eric panic hires a boat, Tinker leaves a message in a bottle (which he had to drink, obviously) and Lovejoy’s shirt battles with his voice for which can be lower. We also have behind the scences info on last week’s Groaning Board from Kevin Lawes aka @PCKevster on Twitter AND an amazing brand new song to play us out from long time friend of the podcast Mr. Marvin Gore. The original Lovejoy episode was written by Geoff Lowe and directed by William Brayne. Antique of the Week: Tinker’s chivalry; John Joseph The Chimp; Britain’s relationship with the European Union and, okay, a nice candelabra.