The TV filming was fun - something like five hours of filming for a 2½-minute segment on the show, but that's how these things always work out. No hints about what it involved, you'll just have to wait until next January/February, I'm afraid. But it'll definitely be worth it, I assure you.
Roll on Jabruary. (It's not only Shakespeare the can make up words).
ReplyDeleteAre you doing any actual training now Ben ? Your country needs you !
Heh
ReplyDeleteHeh. I actually registered to be on that BBC show. I think they kinda decided they didn't want me after I messed up some generic probability question relating to matching socks in the dark; as you do
ReplyDeletesounds fun though~!
I just guess it might be very similar to "The Brightest of Germany" (Der Klügste Deutsche)...
ReplyDeleteDid you compete in the show or were you part of a task?
That would explain the piece of paper I saw saying that the working title was "The Brightest Briton" - which is very clunky-sounding but a literal translation of the German...
ReplyDeleteAnd no, I was teaching the co-presenter about memory techniques for a little film clip to go in between the main bits of the show. I'm not Britain's Brightest, I'm the one who teaches the guy who decides who is Britain's Brightest! That must make me the super-brightest of them all, right?
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