Bingo love

I have been captivated by a televisual delight of no small genius.

Arriving home the other night after a lengthy evening of challenging intellectual discourse over a bucket or two of liquid refresher, I was in sore need of some relaxing 'wind-down' entertainment.

And boy did I strike it lucky!

There on channel 41 was the perfect programme: Bingo Live.

Immensely simple, but totally satisfying, it is built around a concept so simple I could not understand why it had not been done before to me ever before.

Basically, it's a chap declaiming numbers in a rhythmic fashion, thus:

21 - Twenty-One - 21.

And he sticks to that pattern throughout:

45 - Forty-Five - 45.

71 - Seventy-One - 71.

64 - Sixty-Four - 64.

33 - Thirty-Three - 33.

70 - Seventy - 70.

88 - Eighty-Eight - 88.

12 - Twelve - 12.

16 - Sixteen - 16.

54 - Fifty-Four - 54.

39 - Thirty-Nine - 39.

20 - Twenty - 20.

1 - One - 1.

82 - Eighty-Two - 82.

43 - Forty-Three - 43.

36 - Thirty-Six - 36.

27 - Twenty-Seven - 27.

19 - Nineteen - 19.

76 - Seventy Six - 76.

59 - Fifty-Nine - 59.

83 - Eighty-Three - 83.

29 - Twenty -Nine - 29.

44 - Forty-Four - 44.

78 - Seventy-Eight - 78.

36 - Thirty-Six - 36

35 - Thirty-Five - 35.

58 - Fifty-Eight - 58.

77 - Seventy-Seven - 77.

Apparently there were 23 - Twenty-Three - 23 people watching it in Bolton last night.