Everything as entertain- ment Growing up in Trowbridge, south-west England, and going to school in Bath, Rob's recol- lections of his 1970s childhood sound uneventful. "There weren't a lot of distractions," he says, "and there was plenty of times that you could be bored." No epic fantasy TV se- ries to consume on the week- end, just the single Sunday TV film, or the odd trip to the cin- ema.