*For Contractual Reasons Certain Edits Have Been Made

  As I sit here and write this blog two things are foremost in my mind – 1. It's cold in the house. Damn cold. The boiler packed up a few days ago and we're still awaiting a new part for the thing, so it's not fixed yet, and probably won't be until later today (fingers crossed) 2.  I’m not completely comfortable with the title of this blog anymore. When I first set this blog up, 15 years ago, the title was amusing. It was a reference to those DVD releases, more often than not from the BBC, which were edited to remove music cues from classic TV shows (usually played on the radio, or over a montage sequence) so the BBC didn’t have to pay clearance rights. But now it has different, more sinister, connotations and that’s not so funny to me now. It now smacks of this toxic culture we’re currently stuck in, and the re-writing of our history…but I’ll talk more about this is a future blog post. But for the moment let’s put these troubles out of our minds and turn our attentions...