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Thus discussion reminds me there was a report on Midlands Today a few weeks ago about a group of choir singers from the region performing in Birmingham city centre, which is laudable but it’s a bit of a dull way to raise money for COMIC relief, in years past you’d have expected them to have been spayed with baked beans whilst they do it, but bar a few red noses there was nothing comic about it.

There are aspects of past telethons that would be out of the question nowadays such as Billy Connolly running around naked. Throwing baked beans or anything at people would be deemed a health and safety nightmare that people would be up in arms about, usually the same ones who thrive on shows about murder, deceit and other things, but the possibility of somebody getting wet is somehow "not on".