Programme 1, 2016
The longest-established panel quiz show on British radio returns for a new series, with Tom Sutcliffe asking the convoluted questions that are the programme's trademark.
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Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for a new series of the longest-established panel quiz game on British radio. Teams from around the UK compete to unpick the programme's notoriously cryptic and multi-layered questions which rely on a wide knowledge of culture, history and science.
The first programme pits the crime writer Val McDermid and photographer Alan McCredie, playing for Scotland, against writer and broadcaster Myfanwy Alexander and quiz guru David Edwards, appearing for Wales. Both pairs will be hoping they can wrest the series title back from the South of England team who pipped them to the greatest number of victories last season.
As always, Tom is on hand to give gentle clues and steer them out of blind alleys whenever necessary, but will be deducting points depending on how much help he has to provide before the penny drops. Listeners' question ideas always form an important ingredient in the quiz, and the questions are available to see on the webpage before each edition. Tom will also be setting plenty of teasers for listeners to try out between programmes.
Later in the series the teams from the North of England, the South of England, Northern Ireland and the Midlands join the fray. They include some more new participants taking part in Round Britain Quiz for the first time this year, including names already well loved by Radio 4 audiences.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Questions in today's programme
Q2 Why might an imperious fictional surgeon, a late satirist and a colourful pioneer in the field of horticulture all grapple for their place at the Round Table?
Q3 (Music) 聽Where might you be likely to store all of these?
Q4 聽Derby 3, Salisbury 3. Aberdeen 1, Liverpool 1. What's the score in the contest between Melbourne and Wellington?
Q5 (from Matt Underwood) 聽What do a collection of poetry by T.S. Eliot, a bookshop-based sitcom, a rock band with an Appetite for Destruction, and a homecoming jazz standard, have in common?
Q6 (Music) 聽 How could you connect this piece to a Mad man, a Beryl Bainbridge novel and a school in Hertfordshire?
Q7 聽The Old Line State, one member of Booker T's band, an Anthony Burgess novel and chronic fatigue syndrome: what's the correct order?
Q8 聽In what setting might Ms Kahlo turn off a Radio 4 perennial to offer temptation to the author of The Admirable Crichton, with an alligator pear, a 70s accessory to fine dining, and a fire-resistant outfit? And what would be her final, ladylike, hebdomadal demand?
This week's teaser question
The Velvet Fog, Foghorn Leghorn and the 2000 Year Old Man might all identify with a late satirist and film director from our side of the Pond, Why, and who are they all?
The solution will be revealed in next week's programme, and will also appear here.
Broadcasts
- Mon 31 Oct 2016 15:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sat 5 Nov 2016 23:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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