Jeremy Paxman’s world-weary look of disdain has been a feature of British television screens for decades. Most of the time it has been aimed at politicians on Newsnight. But back in 2009, after recording an episode of University Challenge, it was aimed at 20-year-old me.
With the air of a man annoyed at being kept from his lunch, he spoke to the studio audience at Manchester’s Granada Studios and announced: “We have one answer to re-record. Waterson said: ‘Oh shit.’”
