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BBC's Robert Peston and Eddie Mair get Twitter seeing double

Syd Little and Eddie Large; role models for Robert Peston and Eddie Mair?
Syd Little and Eddie Large: role models for Robert Peston and Eddie Mair? Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty Images

The news that Robert Peston and Eddie Mair are to host a Radio 4 show together was greeted with glee by their fans – and has given rise to a meme comparing them to other famous double acts.

The fun began when the duo appeared together on the cover of Radio Times:

Robert Peston and Eddie Mair on the cover of Radio Times
Robert Peston and Eddie Mair on the cover of Radio Times. Photograph: Radio Times

One of Mair’s colleagues than put together a montage of famous double acts, which the PM presenter tweeted:

That inevitably led to a flood of tributes from their Twitter followers, many of which the pair retweeted. Monkey compiles some of Mair’s best retweets below.

BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones couldn’t resist getting in on the act:

Peston also got in on the act:

His favourite was an image of Sooty and Sweep:

All great fun – and brilliant promotion for the show, which starts on Monday at 11am – although Twitter users inked by the flood of images will be glad to hear that Peston has returned to tweeting about the Greek debt crisis.

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