In MANY ways, I was a typical young guy out of COLLEGE. I was at OXFORD, where every NIGHT there'd be a late showing of some great film.

Conflicting views and contrasting IDEAS are the ESSENCE of all GREAT debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union DEBATING SOCIETY. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.

It would have been amazing to have been a STUDENT at Oxford during that golden MOMENT in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before WORLD War I shattered everything forever.

Being in OXFORD can be a bit like being on holiday - there's PLENTY of time SPENT in the PUB.

I broke down while at Oxford, was REJECTED by a record number of MEDICAL tribunals during the WAR, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian WORK till the War ended.

A guy PLAYING pool in a pub once SAID to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I STARTED thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be BEST mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in OXFORD?

But a GIRL of seventeen is not always THINKING of BOOKS, especially in the OXFORD summer term.

For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little HOUSE north of the PARKS, in what was then the newest QUARTER of the University TOWN.