Ten years on

By Brian Clegg

Each Christmas, the TV show University Challenge has a ‘celebrity’ special. More often than not, the members of the team will never meet again after making the show, but I’m delighted to say that the Lancaster team, of which I was part, have managed to have regular reunion lunches. We’ve got our latest this week, and are somewhat shocked to discover that it’s ten years this November since we took part. 

Going down the line, after me comes the youngster of the bunch, Ranvir Singh then  Roger Ashton-Griffiths and last but certainly not least Matthew Fort.

What’s delightful about the group is that we are from very different aspects of what you might broadly call the communication business – yet we find we’ve plenty to chat about with others quite different from those we might encounter in our everyday lives. You can see us introduce ourselves below:

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