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Simon Mayo|08:17 UK time, Tuesday, 26 July 2011

And there was I thinking I had the perfect question. With 2 women on the show, I thought, they'll never know anything about Dungeons and Dragons. If truth be told, I know nothing about D&D either but it is, overwhelmingly, a bloke thing. No one will know about the 100 sided dice I thought. However I reckoned without Caroline B having loads of brothers who made her run and get the aforementioned die when it rolled off the table. So then PTP follows suit (part-time Pauline for new arrivals) and the ultimate humiliation-answer guessed by both colleagues-is complete. Must try harder.

Must try harder too on the 'appropriate summer fun for 11 year olds' side of things. While my back was turned, child 3 was taken to see "Transformers" by child 1. Child 3 declared it should have been a 15 and too much 'human action and not enough transforming action'. Cars 2 would have been my suggestion as it doesn't have the leery feel that Transformers does. Then Wife1 takes children 2&3 to see "Much Ado About nothing" with David Tennant and Catherine Tate which you would imagine would be fine but was, so I am told, a little more bawdy than was expected. But great fun and had no robots hitting each other. Child 3 will watch CBeebies today just to balance things up a bit.

The Grammy award winning Raul Malo today ahead of his Cambridge Folk Festival appearance today from 6. The former Mavericks from man has rave reviews for his solo stuff and you can hear why today.

And oldies today on the subject of HEROES and SUPERHEROES. Already this year we have had Thor, the X-Men, the Green Hornet and Green Lantern in the cinema with Captain America due any minute. Superman the musical is on Braodway (just) and a Batman play has opened in Manchester. There is a new history of the superhero too (Grant Morrison's Supergods) so HEROES it is and I'm expecting a bumper crop of top tunes.

Have a pants-on-the-inside kind of Tuesday, see you after 5.

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