It was madness in retrospect. I should have gone for my second subject - the history of Sussec Cricket Club first. I'd have won that episode with just an average score. As I said, I chose it in a panic as I couldn't think of anything. It was at the audition and you don't have time to go away and...
I was. But it was very embarrassing. I completely froze on my specialist subject. I chose something really stupid (the complete works of Shakespeare, which is such a vast field) but my first three choices were all rejected because they'd been done before or because they were related to my job...