It felt at times as though he were reading aloud from a post-apocalyptic movie script.

Stephen Fingleton took the Douglas Hickox award for best debut director for his work on the terrific post-apocalyptic movie The Survivalist.

He said he was "relieved to have been able to get out", and compared scenes in Hubei with "something out of a post-apocalyptic movie".

That the post-apocalyptic movies of your youth are visions of what the world wants to be.

It was as quiet as London only gets at dawn on a summer Sunday or in post-apocalyptic movies.