Michael Thexton

And he said, Mike, it's good to hear your voice.

I remember you well.

I said, look, Zaid, I don't know how long we've got, but I have some questions.

Is that okay?

He said, oh, anything, anything.

I said, well...

why didn't you shoot me at the end?

Why did you put me back with the others?

And he said, oh, it was what you said about your brother.

He died or something.

He said, it touched my heart.

And I thought, just sit aside, man.

And over the years, I've had a number of theories about this.

And the main one I'd always thought was the fact that

You know, they called for a Brit and they expected some rich, fat Westerner to come forward.

They got somebody who looked worse fed than any of them.

And they just sort of, they couldn't find the enemy that they were prepared to hate.

But the idea that he had actually taken any notice of what I said about my brother at the moment when I thought he was too busy and remembered it 12 hours later and remembered it more than 30 years later...

It's not literally true to say that my brother saved my life.

But it's sort of poetic like that.