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‘APPEARING ON THE DAVE CHANNEL IS THE MOST ROCK AND ROLL I’M EVER GOING TO GET’

In episode two of Unforgivable, there is the lovely but vanishingly rare sight of a comic taking part in a panel show with her young baby asleep on her knee. Katherine Ryan’s appearance, alongside – or, more accurately, beneath – her newborn baby might just be a TV first.

And embarrassingly for the country’s politicians, it shows that Dave – the most anarchic, daft, frivolous of all the TV channels – is now more inclusive and progressive than the UK Parliament.

Let’s just

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