Possibly not perfect Monday night TV after all...

There are certain sentences that can really put one off what sounds like an otherwise potentially interesting, if not particularly new,* television programme, and this was certainly one of them:

Helping the professor enthuse about the “non-trivial values” that made Athens great is Boris Johnson.

*I must write and suggest that maybe it is time for a programme about Angkor Wat. We've had a lot of Greece and Rome recently, and I fancy seeing something about different set of ruins for a change.