“And next, after the 7 o’clock news bulletin on Radio 4, 13-year old TPR answers quiz questions in the Archers”.

We both looked up from unpacking our suitcases, each searching for answers to half a dozen questions evident in the other’s face.

“You never told me that you had made a recording for the Archers?” I said.

“I can’t ever remember taking part in a radio quiz show” replied TPR.

“Even if you had, surely they’d let you know that they were using an archived clip in this programme?” I suggested.

“And what about my intellectual property rights?” TPR complained.

As soon as the the maypole dance theme tune Barwick Green faded we turned our full attention to the radio. TPR appeared in the first scene. He seemed to be answering a Top of the form type question on astronomy. That figured: we could believe that he would have participated in such an activity as a teenager. What was surprising, however, was his strong Scottish accent. Where did that come from, and what had happened to it in the intervening years?