Is The Turnip a hot potato?

I've moved on down the line a little since my last entry. Although it may still just be going around in circles.

When Marisa had suggested contacting Whizz Kid, she mentioned that Tracey Lloyd was the one who "knew everything" and so it was to Tracey I had turned. At the time she was on holidays but has obviously returned to work refreshed and full of vigour and enthusiasm for her role at Whizz Kid . Or, perhaps to a near empty in box.

It was as if her first task back at work was to bring my quest to the attention of Malcolm Gerrie. He seems pretty vague on what I consider to be the zenith of his career, but at least he could supply another couple of names to hunt for.

Bob Baldwin appears at the commencement of the credits under the entry "Devised by" so seemed the one to target. But of course dear reader, even life on the internet wasn't meant to be simple. There is more than one Bob Baldwin, or he has had a very busy and varied career and I couldn't readily find a contact for the one associated with television work. At least I found two company references, Storitel and Doris, Inc. May I at this point comment on the remarkably large number of businesses in the UK with Doris in their names, so many florists!

I begin to feel as if my journey is taking me towards some dark secret, a past best left forgotten or perhaps just an old, unwanted vegetable in someone's barn. I had tracked down a reference to a Storitel production in a previous years Film UK Guide and fortunately one of the production credits listed an email contact at the company. Their response was timely and most welcome, yet guarded.

Curmudgeon was very helpful, passing on my request to Bob as well as providing one of Bob's direct email contacts. This mysterious whistle blower, whilst facilitating my great quest has sensed danger to himself and fears (I suspect not very greatly) unwanted reprisals should his involvement become public. How piquant, and so unlike most things associated with Turnip.