Synopsis

In the seventh heat of Mastermind 1981, four contestants from the South East of England gathered at Middlesex Polytechnic. James Bitton, a retired civil servant, would face the specialist subject of The Second Boer War. Maureen Blakesley, a schoolteacher, chose The Royal Shakespeare Company. James Craven, a cook-general, prepared for a question-and-answer session on the Life of Marie Antoinette. And Craig Scott, an advertising executive, would test his knowledge of the History of 19th-century Le