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“I’m going to start speaking Urdu soon, then people might understand me better.” So said Sarah Lancashire in March as You Sayers protested about the sound quality in Happy Valley. Three months later, Adele headlined Glastonbury and viewers searched for a mumbling option on their EPGs. There was no shortage of things keeping the mailbag bulging in 2016: a surfeit of male nudity that began in War & Peace and peaked with Naked Attraction; the spat between Grayson Perry and Bear Grylls; Queen Victoria’s accent; the car crash that was Chris Evans’s Top Gear (you will search the listings in vain for the two Christmas specials that were planned); Mrs Brown’s Boys being voted best sitcom of the century; and the drama in Ambridge. We lost a few big names from the schedules, including BBC3, Indian Summers, DCI Banks, What The Papers Say, The Culture Show, Dickensian, Raised By Wolves and Vinyl. And the ranks of TV celebrities were sadly depleted, too: so fond farewells to, among others, Caroline Aherne, Cliff Michelmore, Paul Daniels, Garry Shandling, Sylvia Anderson, Victoria Wood and Choppers the PG chimp. In a terrible year for Radio 2 alumni, it was ttfn to Jimmy Young, Ed Stewart and Terry Wogan — although another of their number won a Nobel prize (no, it wasn’t Tony Blackburn). And if Brexit meant Brexit in 2016, will Bake Off still mean Bake Off in 2017? Only time, and the You Sayers, will tell.