Draft list of radio quizzes

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List of radio quizzes

When we add these to the A-Z index, I suggest the genre should be 'Radio' for two reasons - first, it makes it clear what the show is from the start, and secondly radio shows are nearly always panel games or quizzes anyway. For shows that migrated to/from radio, the word Radio should be appended to the genre: as in : 'Panel game, Radio'. Fair enough? - DJB

The DJ segments have been moved to this page:here.

Of use - Radio Listings - almost complete database back to 1997. Also the BBC's infax database: OpenBBC Infax

Still to do

  • County Questions / Wiz Quiz / QED (Radio Leicester's quizzes for villages, Women's Institutes, and Schools respectively. Ran from the late 70s into 2000. Include on sheer longevity?)
  • Does the Team Think? (qualifies as a "comedy panel game"?)
  • Five Live Christmas Quiz (1994-6?)
  • Marathon Music Quiz (1984-5 - Tim Rice and Paul Gambaccini, plus a rotating cast of guests, spend the best part of a Saturday answering questions about pop and/or rock trivia, and it's all for charity. Notable for Mr Gambaccini leaving the quiz for two hours to present his regular show. See http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a55a70bd23ee4517901e9a0ec8ad4cc0 )
  • Newscall (1994, Dominick Diamond)
  • On the Air - quite a major one we don't have yet. Note: the text at the top of this linked page is wrong: http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/on_the_air.html
  • On the Ball (title uncertain, Radio 5 football quiz from 1994, host Kevin Day?)
  • The Red Cross Quiz (1944, maybe before and after) - quiz in aid of the Red Cross, much in the same style as Comic Relief these days. Questions included things such as trying to guess which of three song clips involve the singer being sat on by the pianist, and which of three noises is that of a man walking in snow (the other two being a donkey chewing something).
  • Wit's End - Lance Percival hosted. Basically just a comedy quiz game show with a bunch of comedians. Radio 2 around 1978-79 time.
  • You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet - Capital Radio comedy panel game, 1980s, devised and hosted by Jeremy Pascall. Phil Swern was a regular (probably as a sort of on-air adjudicator rather than a competitor). Quite likely the same basic format as That's Showbusiness.

Identical titles - need splitting into (1) and (2)

DJ segments that need to be added elsewhere

  • Factasia (Mike Smith's quiz)
  • The Crew of Two (Simon Mayo, circa 1990 - Simon also had The Alphabetical Experience and - later, when he was on mid-mornings - Dead Or Alive?)
  • Hold Your Plums (Billy Butler's quiz, R Merseyside. Brought us the "Hitler" blooper.)
  • The Identik-Hit Quiz (Simon Mayo)
  • I've Half a Mind to Scream! (Bruno Brookes' Radio 1 lateral thinking quiz, is this the correct title for it though? The puzzle book I have was published in 1988)
  • The Mileage Game (from the Radio 1 Roadshow). [Wasn't it Smiley Miley's Mileage Game?]
  • Tug of Peace from Mark and Lard's shows
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