Alice in Sunderland

The most thrilling edutainment ever. Now I've written it, that looks like I'm calling it dire. But it's not dire, unless you think being cornered by your chippy infovore mate - obsessed with the connectedness of his shite hometown to the heights of world culture (esp. comedy) - when he's three drinks in - is dire. Unless you insist on finding nothing about 1800-1970 England interesting. And who insists that?