ABSTRACT
Hello, Professor Brown? Have you got a couple of minutes? I’m researching a new TV series for Channel 4 and we’re looking for programme ideas. What programme is it? It’s a sort of magaziney thing: people, places, events; you know. Places? Are you a geographer then? No, actually, I don’t know anything about geography. Oh, you’re doing the people. Psychologist are you? No, I don’t know anything about psychology. You must be doing the events then. Historian are you? No, I don’t know much about history. I don’t know much about anything. I trained as a journalist.
