>Which reminds me, have we ever done Archers sketches in the style of
>...
>Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, ...

Of Brian's last unfaithfulness, and the Fruit
Of that forbidden spree, whose mortal taste
Brought Ruari into the World, and Jenny's woe,
With loss of Alice, till Adam's common sense
Restore us, and regain the blissful farm,
Sing, Beetling Muse, that on the Secret Cabal
Of script, or of storylines, didst inspire
That Archer, who first tilled the chosen field,
In the Beginning how the Villages and farms
Rose out of static: Or if Lakey Hill
Delight thee more, and Leader's Wood that grows
Fast by the Oracle of Fry; I thence
Invoke thy aid to my ev'ryday tale,
That with no melodrama intends to soar
Above the Radio Times, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in soap or Fly-on-the-Wall.

Stephen