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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. Mastermind International – BBC One London – 3 June 1982". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. The earliest occurrences of the phrase that I have found explicitly refer to BBC’s Mastermind and to Magnus Magnusson. The first of these occurrences is from the humoristic column Keith Waterhouse 2 on Thursday, published in the Daily Mirror (London, England) of Thursday 12 th January 1978: He is survived by his wife Mamie, to whom he was married for 52 years, and his four surviving children, Sally, Margaret, Anna and Jon. His elder son Siggy died in 1973. The self-explanatory phrase I’ve started, so I’ll finish gained currency in British and Irish English from its frequent use by Magnus Magnusson 1 on the BBC-Television quiz programme Mastermind, which he presented from its creation in 1972 until 1997.

What is he going to bring to Mastermind? “I’d like to think I’ll bring a friendly face, that I will bring the level of weight that comes from what I do during the daylight hours and have done for the last 30 years. And also I think just a slight difference in tone, perhaps – less the idea that I am part of the problem for the contender. The problems for the contender are the spotlight, the chair, the questions; I am simply the facilitator of them.” A less combative approach, from a man who has reported from numerous war zones.Mastermind champion Gary Grant, whose hobbies include sky-diving and rally-driving, is now planning to climb one of the world’s most-challenging mountains.

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.

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Television Datepad – Wednesday". "Herald TV Guide", Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 1981, p.4 . Retrieved 11 May 2020.

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He said: "Patients kept asking how I had got on. I was dying to tell people because it had been my goal for so long, but I had to keep quiet."

Mastermind Champion of Champions was televised Monday to Friday at 7:30pm on BBC Two in the first full week of August 2010. It featured the winners of previous series of Mastermind. The son of a lieutenant colonel and grandson of a brigadier general, Gascoigne was born in London and educated at Eton and Cambridge (“Magdalene, English Literature” would have been his tag if competing on University Challenge). Through student theatre at Cambridge he met Michael Frayn, a lifelong friend, who went on to become a comic playwright and novelist, although it was Gascoigne who had the earliest success as a writer. He scripted Share My Lettuce, a revue for young actors including Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams, which ran in London from 1957-58, giving Gascoigne a West End success in his early 20s. Switching from vegetable to fruit-related titles, Gascoigne script-edited Dig This Rhubarb, a TV sketch show, but, by then, had already moved from postgraduate comedy to interrogating students. He rose to become the paper's assistant editor and went on to join to The Scotsman, where he was also assistant editor. At the same time, he began to take on occasional work on radio and television.

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Being firm and no nonsense - I am billed as the 'interrogator' after all - but at the same time I'm willing on every contender to do their best and win. I hope they can at least feel that, as I fire questions at them like bullets from a machine gun! Magnusson translated or co-translated a variety of books from modern Icelandic and Old Norse into English. Among these are several works by Halldór Laxness, the Nobel prize-winning novelist from Iceland, as well as a number of Norse sagas, which he co-translated (with Hermann Pálsson) for Penguin Classics: Njal's Saga (1960), The Vinland Sagas (1965), King Harald's Saga (1966) and Laxdæla Saga (1969). Mastermind Champions – BBC One London – 1 May 1982". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. Having to brave Welsh language pronunciations with the Rebecca Riots as a specialist subject. It was a rural peasant uprising in 19th century Wales. That I will never forget!! 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.