James Waterhouse

Or maybe more of a tap?

Yeah, it's an old book.

Yeah, and there's a piece here by him about what it's like to do his job.

There's a nice picture of him relaxing at home with his wife, Jean.

And on page 119, he's talking about how you always have to be on the ball doing live TV.

And he says this.

You can never be sure, you see, that you may not introduce a film of a political party congress and have the chimpanzees tea party turn up instead.

That someone will not turn up in a suit identical to yours.

And, this is the bit, that the poltergeist in whom you've been shown an obvious disbelief will not manifest itself loudly in protest by rapping on the studio floor.

These things have happened.

And here it is, you know, it's in black and white.

It happened, as he says.

Yeah.

And the amazing thing is that no one remembers this.

You know, this is basically the only trace of this ever happening is somewhere in the sort of darker realms of the internet.