"What are you doing on this sunny evening, Mic?"
"Oh, you know, very normal, very summer activities..."
*drinks whiskey and watches BBC general election 1997 coverage*
Frank Skinner is interviewing a John Major lookalike and Tony Blair lookalike. The Blair lookalike is *shocking*
55 minutes in and Jeremy Paxman has just asked Portillo if he's "ready to drink hemlock yet". Portillo smugometer still hovering at about 9.3.
Every time it appears I am absolutely delighted by the high tech command centre behind Dimbleby...
1 hr 3 minutes in and we get the first appearance of a very young, very sharp-looking @krishgm interviewing an oleaginous Jeffrey Archer.
Now Martin Bashir is interviewing Edwina Curry. I'm pretty sure he didn't have to falsify bank statements to secure this particular chat.
Michael Crick, looking like a serial killer estate agent, has just described Enoch Powell's successor (and fellow unhinged racist) Nick Budgen as "one of parliament's great independent spirits" so...
And Jill Dando offers Portsmouth possibly more glamour than it might ordinarily deserve:
1 hour 41 in and Gordon Brown appears, unable to hide his delight with the result. Look at his delighted face there... [and this ends this instalment of my 1997 general election rewatch]
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