- Samira Ahmed: I think we don't really know what to make of these old shows, because we're so confused ourselves in where the boundaries lie.
- Arthur Smith: In a way we're more enlightened in some ways, but we're just as stupid and pig-headed as we always were.
- Toby Young: It doesn't really make sense to say that we should tolerate people of different ethnicities, people who have different sexualities, people from different cultures - which is of course perfectly right - but NOT tolerate people from different eras.