anywhere near enough -- and be a voice for them and initiate change, then you've got to seize the day." He had demonstrated his sporting process by winning the Birmingham wheelchair half marathon after training with Paralympic athlete Mickey Bushell. But then Williams' lawyer sent him a clipping about Channel 4's talent quest for Paralympic presenters and a teasing note saying: "Arthur, put in for this because you're not bad looking and you're a gobshite." After a "speculative" approach, Williams found himself doing interviews, screen tests and finally a "boot camp" in preparation for his television debut next week. "Flippin' heck, I'm a Marine so it wasn't really that tough," he says. "They liked to think it was boot camp and they had the lights on in the dark and it was all very Hollywood and late nights -- but I pushed my boundaries in ways I didn't think my personality would stretch." He got the job and will work alongside experienced presenter Georgie Bingham, offering his specialist knowledge of Paralympic sport. "She can be a representative of the audience because she is learning this with all of you guys back at home and she can ask me the questions that everybody is thinking." Williams praises Britain's "open-minded" society for being "really well-placed" to help Paralympics grow. He hopes that after the Games people will attend other events at Stoke Mandeville, Crystal Palace and elsewhere. Real impact, he says, would be "two blokes in an East London pub debating who