I’m grateful to Steve Elms for his email regarding the November bps news. Steve writes: ‘The archive tales section – Das Island Christmas Show 1973 – was very interesting for me. While I was not present in 1973, I was in the audience in 1975, 76, 77 and 81. As we all used to say: ‘If you had to be away from home at Christmas, Das was the place to be’. Thank you Ed, the memories came flooding back.’