Adam Hills

A sign of a strong television programme is that the supplementary programmes are strong too. Taken as a whole, the Channel 4 coverage of the Paralympics was very good, but almost the best part of it was The Last Leg, the discussion show at the end of each day.

The show was conducted by a droll Australian called Adam Hills and it solved the problem of how to talk about disabilities in a straightforward manner without being crass. Which is not to say that Hills was incapable of being crude, but he knew how to time it. On the day that Oscar Pistorius, so renowned for his sportsmanship, beefed embarrassingly about blade-lengths after losing in the 200 metres, Hills played the tape of the interview and then said, "Holy s---balls." It seemed exactly the right expression.

If you're missing Josh Widdicombe from Adam Hills's Paralympics show The Last Leg, then you get another dose of the droll comic in this belated Edinburgh dispatch as he hosts Welsh wonder Mark Watson, cosy Iranian Shappi Khorsandi and Radio 4 regular turned Spamalot star Marcus Brigstocke.

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The Yellow hat is the thinking hat of speculative positivity and it's this hat that I struggle most with.