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1. What was your reaction when you first learned you had been chosen to be a knight? What did you know about what you'd be doing?
What was my reaction? Well, highly delighted, delighted to be selected. It was completely out of the blue. I guessed I'd be dressing up in armor and riding a horse, but that was it, really.
2. What do you believe was your biggest triumph as a knight?
Well, if you saw the program, there wasn't one. It was taking part, trying all the weapons, putting on the armor and charging someone with a lance, being out on the tilting field. It was absolutely incredible.
3. What was your lowest moment as a knight?
Dancing. Courtly etiquette. I wasn't cut out for that at all, really.
4. Overall, how would you rate your performance as a knight?
I wouldn't win the tournament. I would do OK as a knight with some proper training and some proper kit. What I would like to have done is keep practicing until I got it right - that's what the knights would have done.
5. If you had to choose between daily life as a policeman or as a knight, which would you choose?
I would choose to be a policeman. Mounted policeman. Obviously, because we've got the technical advantage and the medical care. If you get injured as a knight, that's it, you're finished.
6. Has your experience as a knight affected or changed any aspect of your career as a policeman?
Certainly made me appreciate the modern kit we've got. It's lightweight and designed to help us move. The armor didn't. It was designed to have six bladed weapons put to it and to fend them off, bounce off your opponents. But there were similarities. I was asking the horse to go into my place. I deal with football crowds, a knight gets put into battle, both of which the horse doesn't want to be in. Though I don't have to face death. My job is just a bit of violence and missiles thrown my way, but no one's trying to kill me. And I'm not trying to kill them.
7. Did your experience as a knight live up to your expectations?
It was awesome. Something I'd always wanted to do. An opportunity that will never come around again, I don't suppose. I was very grateful to the show producers. I 'd do it again tomorrow.
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