Since AMT409 the Branaghniacs have has spoken, Ken is hot and so are the other entries on then 16-year-old Charlotte’s list of Sexy Old Men (as of 22nd January 2011)
We also consider:
who is the piggy in a piggyback fibby wedding speeches the fallibility of memory rebrands R*ss3l1 Br@nd (sorry) cherry wine in songs <Moira Rose voice> fruit wine big paperbacks at airports cancer the crab TV character crossovers cleaning swimming pools Gwyneth Paltrow’s home spa and getting a friendship tattoo removed.
Plus: Olly is spitting feathers about WH Smith TJ Jones; Helen is haunted by a terrible moment from her stage acting non-career; and Martin the Sound Man knows a surprising amount about the St Elsewhere universe for someone who has never watched it.
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Dry those tears, untie those yellow ribbons round the ole oak trees, because we are, as promised a month ago, BACK. We’ve had a lovely sort-of-holiday (which you can find out more about next Tuesday!), and are raring to go with Answer Me This! Episode 141:
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It’s a corker of an episode for fans of older ladies, with appearances from vintage hotties Merle Oberon (phwoar!), Marguerite Patten (schwing!), Joan Hickson (hubba hubba!) and Angela Lansbury (fapfapfapfapfap), along with unrelated topics of conversation including:
Sea World
the brains of Tostao
Brad Meldhau vs. jazzercise, Jazzles and Jazz apples
Cantona vs. Sartre Polar Bear vs. music for polar bears Gone with the Wind vs. Bollywood the Azerbaijan Film Institute’s top 100 movies? Being Erica
the Big E agricultural festival
kiiking
kiwi fruit
and
the best Miss Marple.
Plus: Olly reenacts The Wrong Trousers at a posh wedding (say, do any of you want to bid on a pair of 38″ Hugo Boss trousers, worn once?); Helen is a philistine when it comes to Citizen Kane and ball ponds; and Martin the Sound Man must have grown up a bit over the break because he manages not to cackle at the phrase ‘ball pond’. Meanwhile, over on our new app, this week’s extra content is a merry tale of gazpacho. Soup-er!
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