This is a rather marvellous gem from the vaults – Vivian Stanshall being interviewed by Toyah Wilcox on a long forgotten TV show back in 1982.

The creator of Sir Henry At Rawlinson End (and former member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) is one of those great British eccentrics.

I’m not entirely sure his towering intellect was matched by Toyah, who comes across as a simpering simpleton, but to be fair she was not a professiional interviewer.

The USP of this long forgotten TV show, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, was being presented by a rotating cast of guest interviewers who chose their own guests.

I used to adore John Peel’s regular brodcasts of the latest instalment of Stanhall’s story Sir Henry At Rawlinson End, filled with surreal flights of fancy and even more surreal humour.

Characters included Old Scrotum the butler, PC Gibbon, Ben Quakerbuttock, Dr Headstuffing, Aunt Florrie and Mr Cumberpatch who, “like all Rawlinsons and favoured servants,” was buried upright in the vegeatble garden.

“No sense in wasting space,” said Sir Henry. “Bags of calcium and goodness in the bugger.”

He certainly doesn’t disappoint here, though the headline is misleading: there is nothing “uncomortable” about the exchange