he puts on fawlty towers and it cheers him up before he goes to bed.ince the first episode, and he put a clip out of the first episode which made me laugh out loud. i retweeted it and i was amazed — i looked at my phone later on, there were hundreds of these retweets and included people like the former foreign office minister alistair burt saying "thank you, john cleese. you are a comic genius" and so on. and it is — so that's my advice to all listeners around the world — cheer yourself up by watching fawlty towers. it is enduring and timeless and god — 45 years ago! i can't believe it! there were some other interesting issues like whether it would be made today and so on, so big themes as well as light ones. yeah, absolutely. michael goldfarb, as an american living in the uk, did you understand fawlty towers? which is kind of setting an english seaside hotel and feels kind of — now feels almost from another world — but is still amazingly funny, at least to a brit. well, i lived fawlty towers because i did my first tour of duty as a university student

well, i lived fawlty towers because i did my first tour of duty as a university student in 1970 and 'ritish seaside experience in a fawlty towers—like hotel. i got it and it was hugely popular in america in the '705 when it was sold on. michael goldfarb. steve richards. mark urban. thank all of you very much. don't forget, geeta guru—murphy is here next week at the same time. that's it for dateline london for this week — goodbye. fairly breezy for some of us, and sunday will remain brisk on the north sea coast, places and on top of that cloudy but there is sunshine in the forecast as well and in fact many western and northern areas will have had clear skies over night and early on sunday morning. that's leading to a touch of frost there in the lowlands of scotland, even the towns and cities of glasgow and edinburgh not far off freezing. we have the wind off the north—east, you can see temperatures holding around double figures early in the morning. so this is what sunday looks like. 0vercast in places across the east of the country. still quite a strong wind blowing out of the north.

as an american living in the uk, did you understand fawlty towers, which is kind of setting an englishld but is still amazingly funny, at least two of it? well, i lived fawlty towers because i did my first tour of duty as a university student in 1970 and 71 and i did stay at the british seaside which is an experience we'll have to have, all foreigners, all foreigners need to have the british seaside experience in a fawlty towers like hotel. i got it and it was hugely popular in america in the 705 when it was sold on. thank all of you very much. that's it for dateline london for this week — geeta guru—murphy is here next week at the same time. goodbye. hello, we've got a fairly fresh, autumnal feeling weekend ahead. and something of mixed fortunes in terms of the weather, too. it's still quite windy, with some showers across some eastern parts of the uk, particularly eastern england. and for all of us, it's staying fairly chilly. but there will be some blue sky and there will be some sunshine on offer for many places. we've got an area of low pressure, which is slow—moving, out towards