[Dave]

I just heard this on 'Front Row' on BBC Radio 4. There was an interview with Mark Gatiss from 'The League of Gentlemen' discussing his work as a pioneering TV writer. I must admit that I had only known of 'Quatermass', something he wanted to distance himself from for fear of being pigeonholed, but he wrote many other things. They mentioned 'The Stone Tapes' which sounded very interesting and various other ghost stories. He also wrote something called 'The Year of the Sex Olympics' about 30 years ago that predicted current 'Reality TV'. It had a studio executive dreaming up a candid camera-type TV show in which members of the public were marooned on a desert island. When it was discovered that there was a murderer amongst them the ratings go through the roof. (I'm pretty sure this was actually on TV last year! )