What elements do you think are necessary for a good day at work?

I think there need to be some interactions with other people that are engaging and fun and challenging. There needs to be a clear thing that needs to be done or achieved to give that sense of purpose when you go home at the end of the day. You need to feel that you’ve added some value to somebody else to give you that satisfaction that your input has made a difference.

Describe your ideal Sunday afternoon.

Ideal Sunday afternoon… probably a few versions of that! It could be a very lazy afternoon after a fairly long and large lunch with family and friends, doing really very, very little or perhaps watching a film or something. A more selfish version for that might be a long lunch with family and then nine holes of golf in the sunshine where I score under. Maybe a Marshfield Cricket Club win on the village knock-our or the Village Cup competition would be a pretty good part of a Sunday afternoon – sitting in the cricket ground, watching Marshfield progress to the next round.

What’s your most memorable travel experience?

Probably going on safari in 2022, which we were exceptionally lucky to be able to do. That was pretty phenomenal, really eye-opening. Made, perhaps, sweeter because we had booked it for 2020 and then had to wait two years to be able to go on the holiday itself. It was five or six days in Tanzania on the safari itself, then we spent about a week in Zanzibar, which was also pretty amazing.

What is a recent piece of media that stuck with you and why?

Oh, so many things! I’ve become pretty obsessed with “The Rest is History” podcast recently, for a variety of different reasons. I think I’ve sort of re-discovered my passion for history, which is what I studied as both an undergraduate and a postgraduate, and then didn’t really pursue it for a couple of decades while work-type reading and work-type activity consumed all my time. But that podcast, I quickly ploughed my way through hundreds of episodes. I like the presenters and the level of research that they do. You would think they’re experts in all of the things they cover, though they obviously cannot be, but that’s how their podcasts come across. I love the variety, and the really interesting social history they cover. It’s thought-provoking in a very current way. You know, nothing is really new – it’s all been seen before, done before.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

I think initially an underwater cameraman. I can’t remember exactly what inspired that, maybe a Jacques Cousteau documentary or something I saw. The closest I got to that was learning to scuba dive in the ’90s, so I fulfilled half that ambition, I guess! And then as I got a little bit older, a sports journalist – I wanted to write football articles and cricket articles for the broadsheets. But I didn’t ever do anything about that at all, and maybe I dodged a bulled without even knowing it 20 years early, given the state of the newspaper industry today.

What menu would you choose for your last meal?

I’d have to go pretty old school. Some kind of smoked salmon, prawn cocktail thing. Then probably a fairly rare bit of roast sirloin with new potatoes and some nice salad. For pudding, maybe some Eton mess. Or sticky toffee pudding? No, I think Eton mess. I’d have a bottle of expensive Cotes du Rhone.

Marmite?

Yes.

Agile or waterfall?

Wagile.

Summer or winter?

Summer.

Test match or Twenty20?

Test match.