22-06-2015 12:49 via theguardian.com

Britain still loves sheds and Penelope Keith: what we learned from the weekend's TV

Are we stuck in the 1970s? And is that a bad thing? Even Jimmy Carr is channelling Bob Monkhouse …Having seen the blurb for this (“Penelope witnesses the formation wheelbarrow display by the Red Sparrows”) I could not miss the mad example of ultra-British retro programming as represented by Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages (Channel 4, Saturday). Is this the best we can do for Margo? But what a voice! What’s her secret? Surely there’s an entire scone lodged in her mouth at all times.
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