Episode 16

The last place in the final of this year's competition is at stake at the Taliesin Centre for the Arts, University College of Swansea. The contenders are the four best-scoring losers from the first-round programmes. Ronald Fraser (freelance journalist) The life and works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh Rex Walford (university lecturer) The history of British musicals, 1945-1980 Clive Evans (unemployed cost clerk) British politics, 1905-1979 Roger Stein (schoolteacher) The life and works of Edward Elgar