With its unexpected revival, Ripper Street has grown broader shoulders and a more confident gait, while retaining the stillness that made it so impressive in the first place.
"The next two years are about hope and revival, and a vision to restore America's place in the world".
These eddies of trouble, the revival of secondary disputes and the mixture of economic policy with diplomatic grievances and popular rhetoric all echo the atmosphere of the early 1930s.
In this week's pod, I caught up with Hot Chip's Joe Goddard to discuss his love of dance music and the 2-Step revival being given new life by the likes of Joy Orbison and Brackles.
Essentially, like Michael Fish and the hurricane, I underestimated the strength of the 1970s revival we are experiencing.
Joe Sumsion of the Dukes theatre in Lancaster points to the fact that if a London revival of A View from the Bridge has just been broadcast, then it must have an effect on a touring production of the same play, however good that touring production might be: "The challenge for visiting or touring theatre is how to make it of equal value for audiences as the NT Live stuff".
The play's star, Helen Mirren, is nominated for best actress, up against Hattie Morahan for Carrie Cracknell's Young Vic revival of Ibsen's A Doll's House, Billie Piper for Lucy Prebble's drug-trial play The Effect, and Kristin Scott Thomas in Ian Rickson's West End production of Old Times.
Returning to the stage at the age of 70, she triumphed in the 2001 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies as Carlotta, singing from the heart "I'm Still Here", the defiant anthem for all female stars with Bergen's staying power.
So here's where I attempt to initiate a rowing revival: I've started to row a couple of times a week again, and I can't remember why I stopped.
Its Tony success is a stark contrast to its showing in the Olivier awards where it secured just a single nomination for best revival.
Those sort of moves do not fit well with Cameron's vision of a blue-collar Conservative revival.
