He has described those forty-one minutes to me once, in my kitchen, three weeks later, in about five sentences, and I am going to put them down as close to exactly as I can.

He said: “I had three versions.

“The first one was just going in.

Getting a drink, saying hello to whoever, leaving at ten.

That was the one I drove there intending to do.

“The second one was leaving.

I got that one out at about eight o’clock and I sat with it for a while and it was the best one and I knew it was the best one.

“And the third one was the microphone.