“... messing about, was looked into by the Wolfenden Committee, and the eminent gay eye surgeon Patrick Trevor-Roper refuted it trenchantly as ‘totally devoid of any truth’.The bishop of Rochester, in the Lords debate on the Wolfenden report, was having none of this. It grows wearisome typing out this stuff, but ...”

“... scientist, Professor Challenger, who would now be seen a natural performer for the television age, Patrick Moore channelled by Brian Blessed, sinks a shaft in Sussex, going deeper than anyone has gone before, to prove that ‘the world upon which we live is itself a living organism, endowed … with a circulation, a respiration, and a nervous system of its ...”