I am trying to narrow down my favourite scene from Ghosts. Perhaps it’s 1980s Scout Master Pat (Jim Howick) creating his own radio station – adverts included “Buy cheese. Please” – then realising no one can hear him on account of him being dead. It could be whenever 17th-century witch trial victim Mary (Katy Wix) accuses swans of being “Lucifer’s lackeys” or calls a camera a “one-eyed metal cow”. Then there’s the episode where the plague sufferers who live in the basement become stans – ie obsessive fans – of tortured romantic poet Thomas (Matthew Baynton), only to lose interest when they actually hear his poetry.
The beauty of Ghosts – the much-loved BBC sitcom whose fifth and final series airs this month – is that this description could either be a highlights reel of top television or the ramblings of a particularly intense fever dream.
