Inevitably it is a less colourful read than the comeback book, but it provides a more valuable analysis of what has really been going on.Many in the American car industry have been slow to appreciate how serious the problem really is.
He is a less colourful figure.
"The world is a less colourful place without Col".
As a children's teatime fodder it would have been impressively lively and informative, but as an offering to adults it needed to be a little less colourful.
The former Luxembourg prime minister has been a less-than-colourful fixture of European politics for more than 20 years, the embodiment of consensus, compromise and coalition-building that is the daily grind of EU deal-making.
He gave Humphrys an unembarrassed apology to anyone offended and promised to be "slightly less colourful".
If so, the Anthropocene – the Age of Man – will not only be far less colourful place, it will also be far poorer in terms of fish diversity, islands and coastlines will be more prone to erosion, and millions of livelihoods will be threatened.
Hugo Speer, who is the link across both series, promises that Bedlam's second outing will be "less colourful and more noir".
The advice given to students selecting a degree course on this side of the Atlantic may be less colourful, but it still carries the same message.
