Synopsis

In the debating chamber of the Oxford Union Society, Magnus Magnusson engages four further competitors. Their topics are: David Watts, a Royal Navy officer, on Elizabethan theatre; Indrani Hettiaratchi, a teacher, on the life and works of Frederic Chopin; Roderick Diggins, a clerk, on English royal palaces from the 9th century to 1912; and Alan Colby, a local government officer, on the life and works of François Truffaut.