And finally... bring back Reggie and Anna

I AM struggling with the Australian drama series The Newsreader, which lots of people tell me is wonderful but I find a little slow and worthy.

But it has given me an idea.

Surely it is time to fictionalise the best TV newsreading partnership in history, ITN’s pairing, below, of the intellectual beauty Anna Ford and the raffish epic drinker Reginald

Bosanquet, always a sixteenth of an inch away from being too relaxed to read his lines. How we looked forward to ten o’clock and how gripping were the catastrophes they recounted.