Nine of us are sitting around a long, polished table in a windowless boardroom. It’s a September morning in 2013. We are seven women and two men, and we work for a major cultural institution. The walls are decorated with digital copies of paintings and photographs. Someone is taking notes on a laptop.

We are discussing the national campaign to mark the centenary of the First World War, which will have the same duration as the war itself and involve media, books, websites, talks and exhibitions. Towards the end of the meeting we are told about a planned series of short documentaries. Can we suggest any themes? After a pause, I say ‘Zora Cross?’