I occasionally watch The One Show as anything with Adrian Chiles in it is invariably good.

With his sharp wit and down to earth Brummie charm he makes what would be an average “filler” show for the seven o’clock slot much more interesting.

On Monday, foul-mouthed TV chef Gordon Ramsay was on promoting his latest book (like they all do), but managed to watch his language given it was well before the watershed.

He was an interesting guest and gave as good as he got from Chilesy.

But the show was a bit of a mis-match of high and low-brow items with posh intellectual Giles Brandreth arguing the case to put the late poet Ted Hughes into Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, when it seemed clear he didn’t want to go there, having asked for a memorial to be placed on Dartmoor. So, why even argue the case?

Then, there was a strange piece about bringing back cranes to Britain — not the metal things they build tower blocks with, but the leggy bird, which looks like a heron, but isn’t.

Apparently they died out in Britain 400 years ago, but left their mark with towns like Cranwell and Christmas favourite Cranberry sauce being named after the bird.

Why try to reverse nature? Perhaps we should try to bring dinosaurs back to life! Hey, there could be a film in that.