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'''''Quote... Unquote''''' is a [[panel game]] broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]] based on [[quotation]]s. Every episode since the beginning of the series in 1976 has been chaired by its deviser, [[Nigel Rees]]. The programme had its 48th |
'''''Quote... Unquote''''' is a [[panel game]] broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]] based on [[quotation]]s. Every episode since the beginning of the series in 1976 has been chaired by its deviser, [[Nigel Rees]]. The programme had its 48th series in July/August 2012. |
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The main part of the programme consists of a non-competitive quiz where the chairman asks each of the four panellists in turn to identify where a certain quotation, phrase or saying comes from. In between these rounds, the panellists are asked to share some of their favourite quotations on a specified theme. Other parts of the programme are devoted to answering the queries from the programme's listener about the sources of quotations and the origins of everyday phrases and idioms. |
The main part of the programme consists of a non-competitive quiz where the chairman asks each of the four panellists in turn to identify where a certain quotation, phrase or saying comes from. In between these rounds, the panellists are asked to share some of their favourite quotations on a specified theme. Other parts of the programme are devoted to answering the queries from the programme's listener about the sources of quotations and the origins of everyday phrases and idioms. |
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| Genre | Panel game |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Starring | Nigel Rees |
| Created by | Nigel Rees |
| Narrated by | (Readers) Peter Jefferson |
| Original release | 1976 |
| No. of episodes | 452 so far |
| Opening theme | Duddly Dell, written and performed by Dudley Moore |
| Website | Quote... Unquote |
Quote... Unquote is a panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4 based on quotations. Every episode since the beginning of the series in 1976 has been chaired by its deviser, Nigel Rees. The programme had its 48th series in July/August 2012.
The main part of the programme consists of a non-competitive quiz where the chairman asks each of the four panellists in turn to identify where a certain quotation, phrase or saying comes from. In between these rounds, the panellists are asked to share some of their favourite quotations on a specified theme. Other parts of the programme are devoted to answering the queries from the programme's listener about the sources of quotations and the origins of everyday phrases and idioms.
There have been over 500 guests on the programme, some but not all appearing multiple times. They include: Tom Stoppard, Peter Cook, Peter Ustinov, Judi Dench, Alan Bennett, Denis Healey, David Attenborough, Kingsley Amis, Kenneth Williams, Douglas Adams, John Mortimer, Neil Kinnock, Katharine Whitehorn, Malcolm Muggeridge and Lord George-Brown.
The programme uses voice-over artists to read the quotations, since the listener cannot actually see them on the radio. In recent years the main reader has been the former BBC announcer Peter Jefferson, who took over from William Franklyn when the actor died in 2006.
A number of notable comedy movers and shakers have produced the programme, including John Lloyd (Blackadder producer and deviser of QI), TV executive Geoffrey Perkins, Have I Got News for You producer Harry Thompson and writer and director Armando Iannucci.
The programme's theme tune, between which snatches of quotations are inserted at the beginning of each show, is called "Duddly Dell", written and performed by Dudley Moore — the B-side of the single "Strictly for the Birds" (1961).
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