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BBC Radio 4 Brain of Britain Ultimate Quiz Book Hardcover - 2017

by Russell Davies


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Think you've got what it takes to pit your wits against some of the brightest brains in Britain? Now you can take on the challenge with this ultimate quiz containing 2000 questions from the Brain of Britain archives. Brain of Britain is in its 65th year, the longest-running of all the broadcast quiz shows open to the public in Britain. With questions covering a wide range of general knowledge topics, let Russell Davies guide you through this challenging and entertaining set of 50 quizzes. Includes a fascinating history of the program and the characters and stories that have made it so successful. An appendix offers a compelling account of the life of the program's German-born inventor and first question-setter John P. Wynn.

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  • Title BBC Radio 4 Brain of Britain Ultimate Quiz Book
  • Author Russell Davies
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins UK
  • Date 2017
  • ISBN 9780008253301 / 0008253307

About the author

Russell Davies was born in Barmouth, North Wales, and educated at Manchester Grammar School. He was a Major Scholar at St John's College Cambridge, where he took a First class degree in Modern Languages. Having been Secretary of the Footlights Club, he became an actor before turning to journalism. His posts ranged from Caricaturist of the Times Literary Supplement to Film Critic of the Observer, where he served three years as football correspondent. He later became TV critic of the Observer and Sunday Times. Since 1979 he has been a regular broadcaster on radio and TV. He still supplies music documentaries to Radio 2, where his Song Show ran for fifteen years. He first chaired Brain of Britain in 2004. His books include biographies of the cartoonist Vicky and the graphic artist Ronald Searle, and he edited the Kenneth Williams Diaries. He is married with three sons, and has played jazz trombone and tuba since 1964.
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