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back. I think he must have dined out on that one for years.

We also did a piece on Valentine’s Day asking whether women should give men flowers, so I tried handing out roses to businessmen in the City, back when they still wore bowler hats. They literally ran away, terrified. I’ll never forget the day I got arrested serving bat stew in the street.

We always kicked off the show with me testing all sorts of things on the public. In this case Fortnum & Mason had started selling this stew – and while I was handing out samples a police constable arrested me. Not on behalf of the stewed bats but for obstructing the pavement.

I was so inexperienced, never having been arrested before, that I climbed into the front of the police van next to the driver – and the arresting officer had to get into the