Listening to Radio 4xtra, I was overcome with sadness. It was the beginning of the second series of the sitcom Albert & Me. While it isn't great, that wasn't the reason that I was saddened. More that it was Robert Lindsay (an actor I very much admired since I first saw him as Wolfie Smith), taking over from Richard Beckinsale, who had died at a ridiculously early age. I loved Beckinsale, who I'd seen in Porridge, Going Straight, and a few other things, and it was a shock to find out that people can die unexpectedly. It affected me greatly at the time.