BBC4 What happened next: Global Village Trucking Company

I didn't, but it sounds fascinating, and just the kind of thing I love, so thanks for flagging it up.

And I've just discovered that it's being repeated at ten minutes past midnight tonight (or technically tomorrow morning), so I shall set the PVR.

Incidentally, it sounds quite similar to Together, the first film that JK and I ever saw together, which in retrospect was the most successful first date film of my life (for obvious reasons). If you ever get the chance to see it, it's completely wonderful: it's about a load of ex-hippies living in a socialist commune in 1970s Sweden, but while it's not remotely blind to their many, many hopelessly naive delusions, it has an amazing generosity of spirit that's completely disarming.

It's a whole series revisiting old "reality TV" - next weeks looks at a group who lived like Iron Age people.

Thanks for the other recommendation.

(I would secretly love to live in a commune but I can't see MrRache going for it?)

No, neither can I! I suspect he'd be like the woman who ends up sheltering there after fleeing her abusive husband, and while she's grateful for the support she's ever so slightly disconcerted by... well, pretty much everything, starting with the vast amount of full-frontal nudity. (I warmly recommended the film to my aunt, but she made the great mistake of taking my grandmother to see it - she was about 90 at the time, and Not Amused).

There's also a wonderful scene in which her kids get together with the youngest commune member, named Tet after the offensive, and although they're naturally banned from playing conventional violent kids' games involving guns and bigging up the military, a game called 'Pinochet' that simulates torture is entirely acceptable.

God, that's just reminded me of the time my grandmother walked in on me watching Les Valseuses - during the scene where Gérard Depardieu is "relieving" a women of her breastmilk on the train. I can feel my cheeks flushing even now.

PMSL @ Pinochet. Brilliant.

Oh dearie me - I know the film well (I was behind an early 1990s reissue, in fact), and you really don't want your grandmother walking in on any of it!

Incidentally, we had a big laugh when the print turned up from the lab - it's always been known as Les Valseuses over here (untranslatable French slang for 'testicles'), but for some unfathomable reason the subtitlers decided to rechristen it 'Getting It Up'. To this day I have no idea whose idea that was or who sanctioned it, but we actually had to warn people in advance of press screenings, saying that that was not going to be the release title and they shouldn't use it under any circumstances!