Who Goes There?: Selected episodes from the classic BBC Radio 4 quiz show
About this audiobook
The buzzworthy 'famous people' quiz about noteworthy and notorious figures from fact and fiction
Who Goes There? is the classic stardom panel quiz chaired by Martin Young. Proving that it's not what you know but who you know, each breezy episode features two celebrity teams battling to answer questions on famous figures from history, fiction, sport, and the gossip pages. Martin Young challenges the teams with hilarious and unusual archive clips, tests them on bizarre stage names and aliases, and reads out surprising CVs to have the panel guess the famous name at the top.
Enjoying scandalous quotations, unconventional career highlights, and even a 'fleeting fame' round (in which panellists are challenged to remember when a certain person was all everyone talked about), Who Goes There? welcomes in anyone from Julius Caesar to Juliet Capulet to Julia Roberts. If you've made a name for yourself, you could be a question!
A lively, fun show featuring sparkling and sharp-witted guest panellists, including Claire Rayner, Joan Bakewell, Francis Wheen, Carmen Callil, Gyles Brandreth, Annabel Giles, Sheridan Morley, Jonathan Meades, David Aaronovitch, Lynne Truss, and many, many more. Perfect for testing exactly which names to drop...
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:
27 November 2005 - 8 January 2006 (Series 1)
9 June - 24 July 1998 (Series 2)
5 January - 9 February 2000 (Series 3)
25 October - 29 November 2000 (Series 4)
20 February - 27 March 2002 (Series 5)
9 October - 13 November 2002 (Series 6)
Production credits
Presented by Martin Young
Written and compiled by Nick Hildred and Hugh Rycroft
Produced by Aled Evans and Elizabeth Freestone
© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
About the author
Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster and former MP and Government Whip. His many books include the bestselling poetry anthology, Dancing by the Light of the Moon, and the international bestseller about spelling and punctuation, Have You Eaten Grandma? With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from Countdown, he co-hosts the award-winning podcast, Something Rhymes with Purple. Gyles presents Great Canal Journeys on Channel 4 with Dame Sheila Hancock and regularly appears on Celebrity Gogglebox with Dame Maureen Lipman.
