"Unprecedented access!" Michael Cockerell's mix of political brass tacks and crumbling-building docusoap delivers on that promise, with cameras permitted to rove round the House of Commons tearooms, offices and even the floor of the chamber.
But NASA's next Mars mission, I took comfort in knowing after Phoenix ceased transmissions, would have the best of both worlds and then some -- a mobile rover with Phoenix-level instruments, a laser beam to sample the chemical makeup of rocks, and a nuclear engine that could keep it roving year-round, unlike solar-powered spacecraft that had to slow down in the Martian winter.
The central work, Colin Matthews's Horn Concerto, required the conductor to arrive onstage after it had started, and leave before it ended, while the soloist, Richard Watkins, wandered the full width of the platform and the orchestra's horn section roved right round the hall.
Whether strolling the boardwalk, roving the streets or making rounds at motels, the police seem to be everywhere in Seaside Heights this time of year.
Their natural predators include many arthropods, especially beetles such as the rove beetles, round fungus beetles, wrinkled bark beetles, Eucinetidae, Clambidae, Eucnemidae (false click beetles), Sphindidae, Cerylonidae, minute brown scavenger beetles, mites and springtails.
The Westwoods played their first round at Pebble Beach in front of roving cameras and a big crowd that made Westwood's father nervous.
But do I call for the bearded to be forbidden to appear in public without handkerchieves tied round their chins or forcibly shaved at gunpoint by roving squads of enforcers?
Roving hands, rolling heads.
