I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.