BBC Radio 4 Brain of Britain Ultimate Quiz Book

by Russell Davies

Pit your wits against some of the brightest minds in Britain by taking up the challenge of this ultimate quiz of 2000 questions from the Brain of Britain archives.


Brain of Britain is 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 programme and the characters and stories that have made it so successful.


In the appendix Russell offers a compelling account of the life of the programme’s German-born inventor and first question-setter John P. Wynn.

Genres: Nonfiction

352 pages, Hardcover

Published December 1, 2017

About the author

Russell Davies has been a freelance writer and broadcaster since 1970. He has written biographies of the cartoonist Vicky and the graphic artist Ronald Searle, and edited the diaries and letters of the actor Kenneth Williams. For television and radio, he has presented many cultural and political documentaries and series, including more than sixty editions of What The Papers Say. In newspapers, he has been a film critic, television critic, sports columnist, diarist and feature writer, but managed never to work for Robert Maxwell.

Reviews

[Colette Coen]

Fab. Good level of questions and the answers sometimes give a little more information about why everyone got that one wrong!