Smith is one of Leon Garfield’s many gripping yet unremittingly bleak children’s novels set amongst a soot-caked world of child labour and brutal crime; these novels provoke – it’s fair to say – mixed feelings amongst those who read them or watched television adaptations of them, and you can hear Joanne Sheppard discussing those exact mixed feelings in Looks Unfamiliar here. If you could travel back in time to compare any food of today with an equivalent in the past, what time would you go back to and what food would you taste? Have you ever experienced a child regressing to a previous life or have you ever regressed to a previous life? If you had the power to bring one historical figure back to life, out of all the people in history, who would you rather reanimate? If you had to choose between killing all of the Eggheads and all of the Chasers on The Chase , which group of quiz nerds would die?

Would you rather have to host ITV’s Tipping Point once a week for the rest of your life, or own a canoe? Meanwhile, in the absence of any halfway decent way of concluding this long-winded introduction, I’ve literally just picked out a random question from the first Emergency Questions book. If you had to have sex with a TV or film snowman or woman, if you had to, which famous snowman or woman would you have sex with and how would you guard against genital frostbite? If you had the ability to be a virtuoso on any instrument without practising, what instrument would you choose?Do you think it’s possible that we’re all robots that we are all robots and we don’t know we’re robots? They were actually very difficult to win at, partly because they were designed to avoid allowing you to reach a stage where it might end up having to pay out money – those timers were incredibly tight – and also because you would invariably find yourself getting unwanted ‘help’ from a drunk person you didn’t know who would slam their hands down on the wrong answer button with the speed, demeanour and severity of someone being administered a mild electric shock, and then exclaim “AHW! Artificial Intelligence: If you had the opportunity to choose between the ability to fly and the ability to walk through walls, but were told that you could only use one of these powers to solve a conundrum, would you be more inclined to soar through the sky or penetrate the walls of reality?

In case you were wondering, only one Looks Unfamiliar guest – Paul Putner – has also been on RHLSTP ( RHLSTP! Would you rather be an exhibit in an alien zoo, have all your needs catered for, but live in a cage and be gawked at daily, or live in an alien safari park where you would have freedom to roam, but would have to avoid super rich aliens who are paid to hunt you and want to put your head on their wall?Artificial Intelligence: Would you rather be forced to sit through an eternity of Big Brother episodes, or be stuck in a room with Richard Herring reciting an endless stream of bad jokes? When a Saturday Boy in a Mr Wimpy costume was upended by exuberant youngsters outside the Wimpy restaurant adjacent to Liverpool Central, and started rolling down Ranelagh Street with increasing momentum.