April 12, 2005. If you’d switched on your TV for your daily fix of Richard and Judy’s highly-charged sex life, your dubious fetishism would have been rewarded with something much more interesting. For on this day, all the talk at teatime on Channel 4 was poker. Fast forward to the present and Radio 4 is following suit. In a recent episode of The Archers, Alistair Lloyd lost over £8000 when a friendly poker school got serious, and is now on the verge of being sucked into the murky world of online gambling. I think it’s safe to say, poker’s gone mainstream.