Don't Laugh And Drive
We set off from Inverness this morning listening to MacAulay & Co and by the time we stopped for lunch at Bankfoot Dave Batchelor was grilling Armando Ianucci about his early years at BBC Radio Scotland.
"Well it was almost a year," explained Armando who was then forced to listen to some of the sketches he had written and performed when he was fresh out of Oxford University and carving out a niche for himself in broadcasting.
Jim Gilchrist had written a full-page article about the programme in The Scotsman, which I tried read while Mrs complained that I can't forget about work for a minute. It's true...and as we got back on the road an encountered a tailback just north of Bridge of Allan I felt obliged to phone our travel desk with the information.
We crossed the Kingston Bridge in the company of Johnny Beattie and guest who were recalling a gentler, golden age of Scottish comedy. Johnny's own laughter was infectious and it was all I could do to stop us swerving into the Clyde.
