Rowanmoor's Mark Lisle...Thinking inside the box

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I caught the tail end of the last episode of this series of Dragons' Den.

Now this is a programme I have been aware of but never devotedly watched, yet confess to having had my interest piqued by a wicked pastiche perpetrated by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, and the recent discovery, on a trip down memory lane with my brother and his partner, that the "Grumpy Woman" (who apparently in real life is an absolute sweetie) had purchased the estate on which they once lived. This lair of the modish macrocranium obviously makes for good television, evidenced by the viewing figures (having given Top Gear a run for its money as BBC2's most popular series). From hu...

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