I know...

...I blogged about this last week, but I must urge you to watch BBC4's The Department Store. Last night's concerned a shop in Huddersfield called Peters, which, two years ago, was taken into administration. The store's still being run by its previous owners, husband and wife David and Caroline, only this time they're only managing the place. What I loved about last night's episode was that it showed the British at their best. For example:

• The customers were incredibly good-humoured.


• The British ability to either stand and pose or say 'oof' and run out of the way when confronted with a television camera pointing at them.


• The way someone stuck in a lift was only concerned about being late back to work off their dinner hour.


• The way British people, in shop cafes, are quite satisfied with a jacket potato 'inc. salad garnish'.


• Thinking that prawn and ham would be a satisfactory filling for a wrap.


• The way people in positions of power in clothes shops go to work dressed as though they're going for a night out.


• The unflinching optimism which makes them believe they can recreate a terrace cafe in Milan - which is overlooked by a stunning cathedral - in the Packhorse Centre in Huddersfield overlooking Dazzles ear-piercing emporium.


• The way that 'lady petrol' is somehow seen as decadent.

The director, Richard Macer, is quite clearly from the Louis Theroux school of filmmaking, but you can't begrudge him copying when his films are as good as this. Watch it.