“QUOTE
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REVISED
22 MAY 2013
The BBC Radio quiz Quote ... Unquote
has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1976.
Devised and introduced by myself, the world of Quote ... Unquote now encompasses a substantial archive of material
concerning quotations and ‘well-known phrases and sayings’ of many
types.
When the programme is not on the air, searching for ‘lost’
quotations and for the origins of phrases and sayings is undertaken in The “Quote ... Unquote”
Newsletter and through this website.
Series
49 of the radio show will be broadcast from 5 August 2013 and recorded in
London during July. Click here for more
on this, for photos of past guests and for details, too, of our signature
tune.
The
April 2013 issue of the Newsletter is
now available – free – as an e-mail-attached PDF. To be put on the e-mailing list go to HOW
TO GET IN TOUCH WITH “QUOTE ... UNQUOTE”.
NEW
BOOKS AND E-BOOKS Go here for details
of my latest e-books including the
autobiography entitled my radio times. This is now also available as a paperback
book from amazon.co.uk
or amazon.com
Alternatively, go straight to my complete
e-book collection in the Kindle Store at amazon.com or amazon.co.uk
The two-hour compilation album of Quote ... Unquote’s greatest hits is now
available as a download from BBC AudioGO. For full details, click here: AUDIO CASSETTE
& DOWNLOAD.
RADIO
SHOW ARCHIVE – PRODUCERS/READERS/PANELLISTS Complete list of
participants in the radio show since 1976, together with other programme
details.
RADIO SHOW ARCHIVE
– SERIES/EPISODES Complete
list of all series to date with transmission dates and names of guests.
NEWSLETTER
An
introduction to the quarterly electronic publication and how to obtain twenty
years of back numbers.
SPECIMEN ARTICLES
FROM THE NEWSLETTER Including: the
‘Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere’ graffito;
Angelina Jolie’s tattoo motto; ‘round up the usual suspects’;
and ‘play it again, Sam’.
CURRENT FAQs The most frequently asked questions on the sources of quotations and the origins of phrases and sayings.
SEARCHING
FOR LOST QUOTATIONS The
‘Hard Core’ of unsolved queries. See if you can help me find the sources
of quotations and the origins of well-known phrases and sayings.
JUST
SO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH ... A few notes on me.
HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH “QUOTE ... UNQUOTE” And how to obtain the Newsletter.