It is a long time since I last heard about a television programme with a pang of regret at having missed it, but I do rather wish I’d caught Pope Francis on the Italian talk show Che tempo che fa on 6 February. Of course, had I done so, I would then have been wishing that I understood spoken Italian, so the regret is a tad on the vain side. But at least I would have been present, sort of, to witness a momentous first in this pontificate, and actually no less present than the host, Fabio Fazio, who was conducting the interview remotely from Milan.