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Sometimes it blows me away to find out that someone I'm sure must have died years ago is not only very much alive, but is still hard at it doing the same thing they were doing donkey's years ago. Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's The Sky At Night television programme, seemed old (not to mention as eccentric as the orbit of Pluto) when I was in primary school.

Now in his eighties, he still presents the programme, and has done so every month (bar one) for fifty years. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is quite something.

A flick through his entry in Wikipedia reveals him to be a noted lunar expert, prodigious author, composer, accomplished xylophone player, monocle wearer and member of the Flat Earth Society.

And how many people can claim that they accompanied Albert Einstein on the piano?