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What inspired Mastermind's sinister black chair and dazzling spotlight? CHRISTOPHER STEVENS has the answer - but it's not what you might think
The nightmares were always the same, even decades after BBC producer Bill Wright was freed from a prisoner-of-war camp.
And when current host Clive Myrie confronts another batch of quiz conscripts tonight on BBC2, he will demand their name, occupation and specialist subject — a deliberate echo of 'name, rank and serial number'. But the full facts of Bill Wright's wartime heroics, his repeated escapes from death and the extraordinary television career that followed have never been revealed — perhaps because the BBC's shameful treatment of this remarkable man is something the corporation would prefer to forget. Brutally overcrowded with some 10,000 Allied prisoners of war, including 3,000 airmen, this camp between Warsaw and Gdansk was evacuated in 1944 as Stalin's Red Army advanced towards the German border.
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