Nearly fell off the chair with shock (laughter really) watching "Brian and Maggie" on Channel 4.
In it there was a recreation of part of a "Weekend World" where Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) was about to interview Thatcher (Harriet Walter).
Coogan (as Walden) hands over to ITN for the news headlines and the real clip is played, Gordon Honeycombe reading the news.
Honeycombe refers to a Middle East peace talks and a Mr Dayan and a Mr F**kMe - well that's what it sounded like to me - and to Coogan as he mouths "F me" to Walter. I wonder if the real Walden did that to Thatcher or whether this was "poetic licence".
After replaying with subtitles on it turns out that it was Mr Fahmi, but Honeycombe's pronunciation made it sound like F Me.
How that was allowed at around midday on a Sunday I don't know.
I'm sure it should be - plenty of phlegm and/or a glottal stop. It was the shock of hearing a newscaster of Gordon Honeycombe's standing appearing to swear.
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