Toby Earle

On February 3 a High Court judge ruled that Lord Lucan is presumed to be dead, thereby allowing the drawing up of a death certificate. Lucan’s disappearance on the night his children’s nanny Sandra Rivett was brutally murdered sparked nearly a half-century of speculation.

This ruling meant closure for Lucan’s son George Bingham, the new Lord Lucan, but none for Neil Berriman, the son of Rivett. This documentary presents the deceased aristocrat’s splintered relationship with his wife, who would reveal his peccadilloes and deny him custody of his children, establishing the motives that would rob Sandra Rivett of her life. What price for a public-service film on how to use a mobile phone: for it to instruct users not to fiddle with the screen while walking because they aren’t looking where they’re going, not to fiddle with the screen while using stairs because they aren’t looking where they’re going, or not to fiddle with the screen while perfectly stationary because ... just stop it.

Strong advice on how to use the first phones is given in this short, which advises all telephonic communicators how best to utilise this miracle of vocal travel so that conversations will be civil and orderly for both participants. It also, naturally, features someone named Mr Parsnips.