It was Chimp Week on the Beeb last week; this week it's Stiff Week on Channel 4.As if himself recently ascended from the Underworld, Gunther von Hagens can hardly contain his enthusiasm for rummaging around inside someone else's exposed viscera. However strong your stomach there's something a quite disturbing about a man that looks like a cross between Freddy Krueger and Ivan Lendl doing live autopsies on telly.
Last night's 'specimen' was an 84-year-old woman that had, we learned, most probably expired as a result of circulatory decline. Tonight we have jumbo tumours to look forward to.
V and I maintain a fantasy list of interesting people we'd like to have round for dinner sometime. Last night she informed me that she's adding von Hagens to hers! Ghoulish goulash anyone?
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