Set The Video should really be called ‘muck about with your PVR’ or ‘make a mental note to watch this on some online catch-up service’, but it doesn’t have the same ring to it does it? And besides, some of us still watch things when they’re broadcast. We’re a dying breed, granted. However, we adapt and use tenuous links in articles to ram various points home about… oh… forgeddit.

Basically, the thing I’m telling you about, with regards to something that you may find slightly interesting, is Man on Earth (Channel 4, Monday, 7 December, 9pm).

This documentary series sees history pixie Tony Robinson peering his pea shaped familiar head into the past once more. This time examining how our ancestors have handled violent climate change over the past 200,000 years and asks what we can learn from them.

(Clue: The answer is ‘Wear shorts and slap on sun tan oil and get a tan unless hit by a meteor’)

In this first show, Baldrick explains how a small group of our earliest African ancestors were rescued from extinction by global warming 130,000 years ago, as their barren habitat was transformed into a lush forest.