Roger Bamber

The Booth Museum of Natural History in Brighton was celebrating its centenary and all the staff were busy preparing the exhibits for a big party. The curator was reluctant to believe that an escaping skeleton could make a better picture than David Bellamy, who was the celebrity they had booked, but after the skeleton was hung by piano wire from planks of wood held by G-clamps, and its mouth wedged open with a film can, he saw the joke.