This Cutting Edge film by Hilary Clarke was without a doubt one of the funniest things I’ve seen on TV in a long time. It was – one assumed from the title – going to heavily feature bin men, but it didn’t; there was pretty much just the one – who I’ll come to later – but the other characters in the film were fascinating because their apparent insipidness belied their British Bull-dogged determination not to be bested by those in the upper echelons of rubbish management.

The likes of Harry Enfield would’ve had a field day with the real-life characters in this documentary, and one of my favourites was international man of mystery Keith Perkins… Read more & comment »