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 one of the first writers to portray the tough times faced by many people in Depression-era Los Angeles. Robert Towne has called "Ask the Dust" the greatest novel ever written about Los Angeles. The American author Charles Bukowski cites John Fante's work as a significant influence on his own writing, in particular "Ask the Dust" – which he had stumbled upon in the public library, while a young writer. Bukowski's enthusiasm for the novel helped ensure that the novel didn't fall into obscurity in the 1970s. Bukowski, who befriended the older author towards the end of Fante's life, wrote a