More than thanks, EEPhil. Your suggestions for day and channel sorts made me think that these can be really useful for just finding programmes that are buried deep at random – well almost certainly more use than the date and alpha sorting.
I had been thinking that an option to find programmes randomly would be useful – but this is nearly as good.
We spent an hour-plus this afternoon and deleted 250 of the 550 programmes that we had already recorded. Ha ha! – Tony