The coronavirus-related death of Tim Brooke-Taylor, one of the venerables of British comedy, will provoke re-runs of his shows. That commemoration may even extend to re-running the 1948 pre-Monty Python sketch, ‘The Four Yorkshiremen’, which was more anarchic and may have better stood the test of time. In it, successful businessmen compare their “we-lived-in-hole-in-road” origins. The sketch has

BEFORE there was The Golf Channel, Tim Brooke-Taylor, magazines and brochures, there was word of mouth.