Spam up! It’s Friday!

The strangest couple of minutes of TV I saw while I was away? Without a doubt, the interview on last Sunday evening’s ‘Child Of Our Time’ (BBC1) with a pub landlord who had a remarkable form of synesthesia.

Rather than experiencing words and music as colours (as most of those with the condition do), this chap experienced tastes, including smell and texture. He has come to associate most days of the week with particularly distinctive tastes, for instance – Mondays with rubber bands, and Fridays with Spam. Even people’s names conjure up tastes, and the footage showed him having to leave the bar because frequent mention was being made of a regular whose name caused him to suffer the taste of Marmite sandwiches.

In case you’re gutted you missed it, don’t be – the rest of the programme was bollocks.