What we learned from the weekend's TV: no-one wants Poldark's putrid throat

There was a bad case of plotline overload during the last episode of Poldark, some sous-vide action on the MasterChef final, and some hair issues on both The Big Bang Theory and Three in a Bed And so he rides for the last time. Until series two (already commissioned). The last episode of Poldark (Sunday, BBC1) and the last opportunity to understand the subplot involving angry pseudo-aristo types, copper and smelting works. But what's this? The Putrid Throat. "I would not wish the Putrid Throat o...