The Unbelievable Truth

Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, David Mitchell

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Windmill Books
15 April 2014

Radio; Humour

If you love QI you will love The Unbelievable Truth the most successful BBC Radio 4 panel show fronted by David Mitchell is all about identifying the unbeilevable truths from the lies.

If you love QI you will love The Unbelievable Truth the most successful BBC Radio 4 panel show fronted by David Mitchell is all about identifying the unbeilevable truths from the lies.

Enter Mr David Mitchell's amazing Cabinet of Curiosities and prepare to marvel at this hand-picked and lavishly illustrated compendium of incredible facts, each one painstakingly culled from the hugely acclaimed BBC Radio and Australian TV show The Unbelievable Truth.

PLUS - try your own truth-detection skills over a series of ingenious comic essays on a diverse range of subjects from Armadillos to Sir Walter Raleigh by the show's co-inventor Dr Graeme Garden - each essay contains FIVE incredible truths, tantalisingly concealed amongst a host of barely credible lies.

The Unbelievable Truth is hosted by the award-winning actor, comedian and writer David Mitchell, and was first broadcast on Radio 4 in 2006, since then it has become one of BBC Radio's most popular and successful shows.

By: Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith
Foreword by: David Mitchell
Imprint: Windmill Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 297g
ISBN: 9780099559139
ISBN 10: 0099559137
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 April 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Graeme Garden is one third of the Goodies. He is a comedy legend. Jon Naismith has produced on Radio- Week Ending, The Skivers, The News Quiz, Quote...Unquote, Elastic Planet, For One Horrible Moment, And I'm the Queen of Sheba, The Labour Exchange, Do Go On and About A Dog all for BBC Radio 4, as well as twenty years of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, recently voted the second greatest Radio programme of all time after The Goons. He also co-created The Unbelievable Truth. On TV he has produced and co-devised Bring Me The Head of Light Entertainment with Graham Norton and It's Only TV But I Like It with Jonathan Ross, Jack Dee, Phill Jupitus and Julian Clary and has produced This Week Only with Joe Cornish, Nick Frost, Chris Addison and Lauren Laverne for Channel 4, God Almighty with Clive Anderson for Channel 5, The Smith & Jones Sketchbook with Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones for BBC1 and Shane with Frank Skinner for ITV1.

Reviews for The Unbelievable Truth

Listeners of Radio 4's popular and very funny panel show The Unbelievable Truth will already be familiar with the concept of trying to sneak unlikely truths past the opposition, but the idea also works well in book form ... amazing facts ... Huge fun and great for storing up information to make you seem more knowledgeable than you really are. Daily Mail Incredibly funny ... written in an easily accessible, comical way 5* Read Dream Relax