Ask the Family Ask the Family Ask the Family is a British game show that was first broadcast on BBC1 from 12 June 1967 to 22 October 1984 hosted by Robert Robinson and then on UK Gold from 6 June to 10 October 1999 hosted by Alan Titchmarsh and from 4 April to 5 May 2005 hosted by Dick & Dom on BBC Two. The theme music, with its distinctive sitar, was "Acka Raga" by John Mayer and Joe Harriott. The show took the form of a quiz contest between two teams, with each team consisting of four members of a single family
Ask the Dust foreword to this novel for the Black Sparrow Press reprint edition. Bukowski states in this foreword: "Fante was my god". Bukowski chronicled their relationship in his short story "I Meet the Master", although in the story, the author is referred to as "John Bante" and his book is called "Sporting Times? Yeah?". "Ask the Dust" contains thematic similarities to Knut Hamsun's 1890 novel "Hunger". Fante was a great admirer of Hamsun. The title "Ask the Dust" derives from Knut Hamsun's novel "Pan" from 1894, in which Lt. Glahn tells the story about the "girl in the tower": "The other one