Synopsis

The second semi-final of the Mastermind series features contestants from Blackpool Tower Circus. This time, the spotlight falls upon Richard Sturch, a Church of England parish priest from Kidlington, Oxfordshire; Russell Turner, a mature student from Hethersett, Norwich; Robert Devlin, a senior library assistant from Belfast; and Boris Starling, a political risk consultant based in London. Their specialist subjects are Emperor Frederick III, anarchism from 1840 to 1939, nineteenth-century Irish