Gropers, flashers and sexual try-ons were the norm back in the 1960s

THIS got my attention: “He sat down beside me in the studio when I was presenting my programme live on the air, and took his trousers off.”

Up to then, the story could have gone in six different directions, five of them harmless. It had started with a female broadcaster asking me if I’d ever had any — well — encounters with a named male broadcaster. I had shrugged and said “Not really.”

This woman was quite a talker, so most of the time, once she got launched, I went on auto-pilot, half-listening. Which meant I now had to revise to get a handle on the story.