Did not Donald Kerr go on to manage Radio Merseyside - and was he not seriously affected by the hepatitis-laden lunches on the day that an Archers Celebration and (of all things) an Allowances Dept. sandwich lunch also spread the infection?   He was a very successful manager in Liverpool. This triumph of BBC Hospitality resulted, I was told, in a substantial payout to the Archers actors after Equity intervened.

Public health anoraks will tell you there was an even more celebrated incident at Apothecaries Hall, when a lunch for  surgeons became, as they say, a vector for the spread of the same disease due to the disgusting personal habits of Scots raspberry pickers.

John Turtle