Our overseas readers don't know what they're missing. See, we're used to the wonderful Open University and other learning programs that go on through the night on BBC2. Where else would you get programs like In Search of Syphilis*, 3:30 am BBC2, "...new insights into the origins of the Great Pox, which swept through Europe at the end of the 15th century." The Herald deplores the decision to cease these Open University broadcasts and to distribute them to students on DVD instead. We're going to miss those hirsute fellows in bell bottoms, and their bespectacled sisters in A-line dresses, repeating forever the same lectures they gave in 1975. Insomniacs by now must know by heart the behaviour of sine waves, statistical analysis functions, architecture of the renaissance and many other marvels.
*I've memorised this program already. (Feargal)
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