I have grown up with Victoria Wood, seen everything she has done on TV, gone to her shows etc. She IS a national treasure - so why oh why has the BBC all but trashed a really good series of programmes called Victoria's Empire with a music score which sets the whole thing back 30 years PLUS is so invasive it distracts from the tremendous research she has done for the 3 shows?

The music plodded along as if we were watching a vacucous daytime TV serial, none of it inspirational enough to capture the fantastic scenery, Victoria's quick and sublime quips or the big question of it all, did we improve any of the countries we 'took over'?

Who ever plinky plonked their way through composing and playing this dreadful score wants throwing off Victoria Falls. I kept ranting about it and my beloved just said 'don't take any notice of it, just watch.' To my music-reflex ears, I am afraid this is totally impossible.

Oh well, Rufus Wainwrights new CD out today!