jpembroke was to have been on University Challenge, but when in the rehearsals an answer of his made it clear that he believed Dylan Thomas to have been a character in the Magic Roundabout, Jeremy Paxman, outraged at his ignorance (and nursing one of his notorious 'savage' hangovers) came out from behind his desk and beat him so severely that he had to be substituted, spending the day of recording connected to a drip and one of those special machines that goes bleeep....bleeep.....bleeep....