You will need to be a certain age to remember the contribution that Daniel Farson made to the television landscape in the late 1950s. In manner, Farson might have struck the viewer as part of the patrician class commentators most likely to be seen on television in that era, but there was more to him than that – Farson possessed what we would now regard as a slightly counter-cultural attitude that played interestingly against his cut-glass accent, and his readiness to tackle then-unorthodox subjects was notably ahead of its time. This second collection of his short documentaries is welcome as a cultural artefact of its times (including sexual themes). Highly entertaining, and proof of the BFI’s descriptive strapline: ‘Brash, bohemian and boozy, bon vivant ITV reporter and presenter’; the first programme on nudism is priceless in its humour, but there is much sharp social commentary in these pieces.