Set in the 1970s, the plot of the television play centred on strike action in a university.

‘Isn’t that a young Alan Rickman?’ I asked RJH, who was sitting next to me.

RJH agreed – and then we both realised that it must have been Rickman who played both Tony Webster (great!) and David Harris-Jones (super!) in The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin.