Sunday morning

It's Sunday morning, and I'm just washing up in the kitchen when, to my astonishment, the legendary screenwriter Edward Penrose wandered confusedly into my back garden. Sadly I had no herbal tea to offer him, though he seemed happy with earl grey.

Eddie, as his friends know him, is probably best known for his work on Doctor Who, though he also contributed to Blake's Seven, The Survivors, Doomwatch and Doctor Finlay's Casebook. He also wrote the screenplays for the British films Satan Never Sleeps and Fear of Children.

Before he left to attend Mass, he offered to share his thoughts on the current state of broadcasting. As Eddie is now 94 and has not watched television since an episode of Take Your Pick  he watched in hospital in 1978 ("I honestly don't believe television will ever come up with anything better than that episode of Take Your Pick.") his thoughts might not be very helpful

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