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Just for once the BBC gets it so right: PM on Radio 4 signs off with its tribute to Eric Sykes - a minute's noise (as against silence) from The Plank.

The joke being, of course, The Plank depends upon visual humour: so the minute is mostly crashes, bangs, whistles and theme.

And the joke behind the joke (serious, too): Sykes was deaf. And so here we are saying good bye, listening 'blind' to his joy of a film.

He'd have seen the joke.