I don't know what Alvin knows. I don't even know what I know. I'm still trying to get a handle on Karl and Carl and how Brian Matthews can still be on the radio when he's obviously 110 years old and whether President Obama plays lead guitar in secret and what the heck happened to Chapter 24.

I do, however, believe in Reg's ability to entertain (and in Colin).

Brian Matthew is coming up to 84.

He graduated from radio to TV in the early '60s. He can easily be found on YouTube. E.g.

YouTube searchbox: 'Spin-a-disc (THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS 1963)'

Worth watching all the way through. TYLS was a very big music TV show in the first half of the '60s. Very likely that Alvin would have been a regular viewer.

A little bird whispered in my ear that Alvin haven't been able to follow this story because he's away on some nostalgia trip around the Nottingham area. Not even Evi is said to know exactly where, and when, he is right now..

Don't know 'bow that, Borjie, but Marco Pirroni RULES!!!!!