End of the road
The long story which began more than three years ago was finally coming to an end, and we’d made it right to the final hurdle. Would we trip, or was national glory really in our grasp? I could hardly believe we’d made it as far as we had and spent most of [...]

Under pressure
We stared disaster in the face in this round. Manchester had done quite well in previous rounds - in both the first and second rounds they were the only team to score more than us. But their performances were largely a one man effort, whereas ours had come as a result of team-wide ability. [...]

Back to the Travel Inn
There was an inordinately long three month break before the final weekend of filming, and autumn was becoming winter when we headed up to Manchester for our third and final visit to Granada studios. And this would be our last trip - the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final would all be filmed [...]