Durham in the morning – Berwick in the afternoon. Nobody could accuse me of a weekend productivity lapse.

Carolyn drove me between the two towns across some of the finest landscapes in Britain.

Gerry Folley conduced another brilliant interview. Here we are outside the ancient Town Hall standing in front of the stocks, used to administer the town’s own form of summary justice right up to the 14th century.

William Beveridge was MP here for a short time in the 1940s. He played a crucial role in the Harold Wilson story and was principally responsible for encouraging Harold to stand in the 1945 general election in which Wilson won Ormskirk for Labour whilst Beveridge lost Berwick for the Liberals.