Oh dear, it is not going well. He doesn’t remember that, in an interview with Spotlight on Alumni of the University of Sussex, where Myrie studied law, he said his favourite record was the Bach cello suites played by Paul Tortelier. But he does know that the Verona opera festival, which he and his wife visit every year (the past two excepted), was started in 1913 to celebrate the centenary of Verdi’s birth. Magnusson later returned to present a one-off celebrity special, originally broadcast on 30 December 2002 on BBC Two, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first ever Mastermind final. [5] This was a precursor to the main show returning to the BBC with Humphrys as host. [6] Shortly before his death, Magnusson returned to the regular Mastermind series to present the trophy to the 2006 champion Geoff Thomas. Sally Magnusson presented the trophy to the next series winner, David Clark, while also paying tribute to her father and his legacy to the show. Gascoigne’s accent – and the Oxbridge colleges who dominated University Challenge’s early decades – gave the show a very English feel, despite its American roots in a show called College Bowl, which the Bernstein family, who ran Granada TV, wanted to emulate for UK television. The subject matter – and title – might have been thought potentially intimidating to audiences, but the Bernsteins specifically intended Granada to be a BBC within the ITV commercial structure, and there was no panic over hard questions on the kind of tough subjects that Gascoigne knew so well. Part 2 of the consultation has a focus on transparency provisions and notices. The content detail of each of the (many!) new notices is set out in the draft Procurement (Transparency) Regulations 2023. Consultees are asked to comment on the extent to which the content of each of the notices reflects the policy intent set out in the Bill.

There’s more latitude than you think,” he says. “I don’t think anyone would confuse my presenting style with Kenneth Kendall’s or Richard Baker’s. You can, in the way that you phrase things and in your whole demeanour, bring across something that suggests you’re not just this two-dimensional news robot reading an Autocue.” The Channel 4 Prank programme Balls of Steel parodied Mastermind with its sketch The Alex Zane Cleverness Game, in which experts were quizzed on their specialist subjects (included were "The Life of Anne Frank", " Eurovision Song Contest Winners", and " Hercule Poirot"). Unbeknown to the experts, the show was a hoax, and incorrect answers were included to frustrate them whenever they supplied the correct answer. He said: "I have had the goal of winning Mastermind for the last four years. It’s a little bid sad but once I get an idea in my head, it becomes my goal and I guess I just became a bit obsessed with quizzes and building up my general knowledge. I’m always looking for the next challenge and so the next thing is going to be something physical." And, for the show’s final, Gary admits he tried to select pop band Girls Aloud as his specialist subject – so that he could meet one of the girl group’s sexy singers. When bosses at the show rejected his request, he opted for ‘whales, dolphins and porpoises’ as his chosen topic – taking the title by five points. The Part 2 consultation also gives a first glimpse of the potential approach to the transitional application of the new Act. Similar to as happened with the introduction of the 2015 Regulations, the consultation suggests that an “I’ve started, so I’ll finish” approach will be adopted for procurements already “commenced” when the Act comes into force, as well as for lawfully-established frameworks and DPS already in operation at the go live date.Gascoigne was naturally literate and intellectual, as he showed in his other major TV work – the historical documentary series The Christians (1977), Victorian Values (1987) and The Great Moghuls (1990). His genuine erudition drove a business sideline in high-end publishing and bookselling. This allowed him to choose TV work carefully but also led to a second quiz show, in which, improbably as it might seem in a contemporary medium cautious about high culture, he went somewhat upmarket from University Challenge, fronting Connoisseur (BBC Two, 1988-89), a panel game in which the subject matter was exclusively the fine arts. Television Datepad – Wednesday". "Herald TV Guide", Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 1981, p.4 . Retrieved 11 May 2020. The earliest occurrence of I’ve started, so I’ll finish used without explicit reference to BBC’s Mastermind or to Magnus Magnusson is the caption to this photograph of the participants in the Great North Run 4 of Sunday 30 th June 1985, published in The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England) of Monday 1 st July 1985: Bowcott, Owen (8 October 2007). "Mastermind seeks more women". The Guardian. The show ... was the brainchild of the TV producer Bill Wright..., who drew on his wartime experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo.

The Mastermind theme tune is called Approaching Menace by Neil Richardson and Bill Wright found it in the BBC Gramophone Library. Neil Richardson is a well-known composer, conductor and arranger – he later wrote some of the music and conducted the score for the Richard Curtis film, ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. In 2005, the show was spoofed on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show where the specialist subject was "Britishness", relating to the proposed test immigrants may have to take, to prove they can fit in with British society. This permits the government to make further, secondary, legislation to deal with all the details that are too complex and unwieldy to be included in the Act itself. The government is now consulting on that secondary legislation in two parts. The first ever Mastermind champion was Nancy Wilkinson (1972) with specialist subjects of French Literature, European Antiques and the History of Music between 1550-1900. · The youngest champion is Jonathan Gibson (2021), aged 24, with the specialist subject of comedy songwriting duo Flanders and Swann.What has been the most memorable specialist subject for you across the series so far since you’ve been the host? He was the perfect host to prove ITV’s instinct that viewer enjoyment does not necessarily depend on the ability to play along at home. Instead, his easy intellect and unpreposessing grasp of trivia allowed viewers to enjoy the cleverness of others. As a smug arty teenager, I was at first bemused that my working-class north-eastern grandparents (who left school in their early teens) dutifully watched a programme on which they got even fewer of the answers than I did. Now, I ashamedly realise they were appreciating the spectacle of Gascoigne and his contestants’ intelligence (in whom they also saw their children, the first in the family to go to college) and further educating themselves. Whatever your knowledge bank, it was greater by the end of an episode.