Doing the To-Do List
Get up, do tax, extend overdraft, give pills to cat, explore foreign rights, check diving
- charts, book honeymoon, pack knickers, have baby - anything and everything can go on the to-do list. This montage taps into people's sometimes obsessive need to impose order on the threatening chaos of their lives, including the trials of a nuclear-submarine commander remembering his medals, a poet sorting out the polystyrene under the sink, or a comedian just trying not to lose it. Producer Richard Bannerman Arthur Smith has got a little list: page 117