Arena (1975)

The Banana (1997x6)

Air date: Dec 24, 1997

Tonight's programme considers musa sapientum - the fruit of the wise. The Velvet Underground's John Cale tells the story behind Andy Warhol's famous LP cover, Auberon Waugh and John Walters recall their first encounters with the fruit after the war, and footballer Brendan Batson considers how they became a symbol of racism hurled from the terraces.