I kind of knew I wasn't going to win and thought I might as well make the trip useful if I was going all the way there to lose.I'd written up this [pitch for a new podcast around] the idea there were objects in museums and galleries that were nicked.So, I looked up this historian named Alice Procter who was doing these rogue tours [of museums] and asked if I could interview her.I also organised some meetings with broadcasters and production companies in the UK.I really clearly remember having a meeting with a very well-known British broadcast platform and they were like, [assumes British accent], "Yeah, but did we really steal that much stuff, though? Like, is it really that bad?"I should have realised in that moment that it was going to be hard …Interviewing Alice was the last thing I did before flying out.I just said to her, "Are there many things in museums that are stolen?" And you know when someone laughs and they let out a bit of spit?She basically rattled off a list of objects that became the first season of the show, before asking, "What time is your flight? You need to go to the Victoria and Albert Museum."She sent me to this wooden tiger mauling to death a British soldier with a hand crank on the side [that once belonged to an 18th-century ruler of a kingdom in southern India] And because I'm from Australia, the colonies, I am easy to ignore.They pay lip service to [STBS] on Instagram and things like that, but when really asked whether they'll do an interview or answer questions, let us film or even license us footage, they do everything they can to shut it down.*I'm done being polite about this stuff, because honestly, the British Museum has a perfectly good story to tell