I PULL up at Fenway House, the home of Brendan Duke, to conduct my first in-person interview for my new podcast project. For the past few weeks I’ve been interviewing over Zoom, but now (November 2020), restrictions have finally eased enough for me to visit my guests in person, to hear them from a two-metre distance, rather than through a laptop screen.

I’ve two backpacks with me. One containing my recording kit, the other a box of sweets as a feeble thanks to my gracious host and interviewee. We sit down and begin. I ask Brendan if, before we being talking about the subject of the interview: his horse, Openide – he can begin by giving me some context around his career at the time of the horse’s arrival.