35. Anne Bronte's Chamberpot (THE Napoleonic Commode)

A pint of bitter and a pint of gin please, we're back! Yes, it's Pol the cough, Helen the croak and Em the noise (or is it The Thigh?) return for 2020 with SERIES FOUR (what the actual heck!) Lovejoy doesn't have a pot to piss in this week... or does he have Napoleon's? We meet Senor Freddy El Telefono, a très French Napoleon expert and an attractive lady potter in a classic Terry Hoggkinson episode replete with one liners, foreign accents and a mystery - just what WAS in that wolf?! There's also a brief return from Fred West's cardigan, some malevolent morris dancers and a glancing mention of Charlie Gimbert as Em gets spooked by The Witches, we learn when a commode is not a commode and the adhesive bonding properties of old cheese. Antique of the Week: Pianolas (and payphones in pubs) The original Lovejoy episode was written by Terry Hodgkinson and directed by Baz Taylor. You can read all about Professor Hood's experiment here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2006/5039.html and listen to the episode of Witness History on Albert Pierrepoint here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p036bk5b