mostly david ephgrave

One thing the internet definitely serves to illustrate is: whatever enters your mind fleetingly, will be the focus of another person’s obsession. Let me give you an example: The other day I was watching an episode of the BBC Four game show ‘Only Connect’ – and quietly seething over the poncy Egyptian hieroglyphs they assign to the categories in every round; you would never have had that on 'A Question of Sport'. In the third round of the show, the contestants have to solve the ‘Connecting Wall’: a series of sixteen clues, which can be separated into four groups of four connected items. They have to work out what those four separate groups are – and not be confused by a few red herrings amongst them, that could be attributed to more than one group. (My struggle to explain this is the reason I’d never be good at pitching an idea for a game show.) On this particular occasion, the wall was peppered with character ...