There's an extended pro shovel monologue in the gripping Boy's Own Adventure series: Ripping Yarns Episode 2: The Testing of Eric Olthwaite (1977) Eric Olth

There's an extended pro shovel monologue in the gripping Boy's Own Adventure series: Ripping Yarns Episode 2: The Testing of Eric Olthwaite (1977) Eric Olthwaite is interested in precipitation patterns in West Yorkshire, shovels and black pudding. He is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. One day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records. Eric becomes famous and is considered interesting again, so much so that he is made the mayor of Denley Moor. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rnw https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpsz2eAKOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpsz2eAKOs