Synopsis

For its twentieth anniversary, Mastermind turns its spotlight on this year’s inaugural challengers in the Great Hall at the University of Reading. The contestants are Alice Hobbs, a teacher specializing in children's literature from 1850 to the present; Christopher Wright, a retired despatch clerk whose specialist subject is the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific; Jacqueline Pearce, an information technology specialist focusing on Greek mythology and heroic legend; and Michael Forder, a fr