In a world full of fear and loathing the BBC is to bring back one of the most realistic, gripping and spell-binding science fiction programmes of yesteryear. I mean, as many of you will have guessed, the return of ... ta-da, ta-da, ta-da ... drumroll ... The Clangers !!! And who is to be narrator in place of the treasured Oliver Southgate? Couldn't have been a better choice - Michael Palin.
Hurrah. Let there be much merriment, public nudity and dancing in the street. [Something may be amiss in that sentence but I can't quite work out what is is]. After that we can go back to worrying about ISIS, Russia invading Ukraine, Erdogan deciding to annex Poland, and the usual stuff of the news channels.