26. Bedouin New Romantic (Eric of Arabia)

A double scoop of jalopy please and a sprinkling of asides this week as an incapacitated Lovejoy has the oddest dream… Join us as we delight in Bert Kwouk’s presence and marvel at the NHS in the 90s when it was clearly fine to have any amount of visitors at all sorts of hours and your doctor would drop everything to do keyhole surgery on a leaf, a plaster cast, a terracotta pig etc if it made you happy. We meet a space invader (not the good kind that Polly likes), discover we don't know anything about Lawrence of Arabia and wonder if there’s anything the Chinese didn’t invent as we discuss this utterly bonkers episode which has two storylines for the price of one. Helen endorses it. It's our (well, Em's) first ever 10 out of 10 so listen out for the special jingle and let us know - were Eric and Natasha “working on the bike” or just really good pals? The original Lovejoy episode was written by Steve Coombes & Dave Robinson and directed by Ian McShane (of course!) Antique of the Week: Netsuke