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Round Britain Quiz (or RBQ for short) is a panel game that has been broadcast on BBC Radio since 1947, making it the oldest quiz still broadcast on British radio. It was based on a format called Transatlantic Quiz, a contest between American and British teams on which Alistair Cooke was an early participant. The format of the quiz is that teams ...
After editing the BBC Radio 4 arts programme Kaleidoscope, [3] in 1986 he became the first arts editor of The Independent newspaper, a columnist and television reviewer. [2] [4] [5] Sutcliffe presented the BBC Radio 4 arts show Saturday Review from 1999 until it was scrapped in 2021. [6] He was chairman of Round Britain Quiz until 2022. [3]
What's My Line? (British game show) Who Said That? Categories: 1950s British television series by genre. 1950s game shows. British game shows by decade.
X Marks the Spot was a British radio quiz and panel game, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1998 and 2006. It could be likened to be a more light-hearted version of Round Britain Quiz. It was presented by the comedian and author Pete McCarthy until his death in October 2004. The writer and broadcaster David Stafford took over the reins from ...
In 1961 she entered and won radio's Brain of Britain contest. This heralded a forty-year period as a mainstay of radio panel game quiz programmes. In 1967, after much lobbying of the producers, she joined the panel on Round Britain Quiz, regarded as the most erudite of the BBC 's quiz shows, and rapidly became its most celebrated panellist.
Counterpoint. Counterpoint is a BBC Radio 4 quiz. Described in the show's introduction as "The general knowledge music quiz", the questions are about music, from classical, jazz, pop, musicals, and all other forms of music. It was originally hosted by Ned Sherrin (1986–2006).
The 3rd Degree. The 3rd Degree (sometimes written as The Third Degree) is a British quiz show broadcast on BBC Radio 4, hosted by comedian Steve Punt and made by Pozzitive Television. The series is recorded at different universities around the country, the contestants all coming from the university in which the recording takes place.
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. [1] The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. [2]