Nigel Rees
Overview
BBC Radio 4
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long running panel game
Panel game
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Quote... Unquote
Quote... Unquote
Quote... Unquote is a long-running 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. In July 2011, the programme began a new series, being broadcast at 1.30pm on Mondays, repeated on...
(since 1976) and as the author of more than fifty books – reference, humour and fiction.
He went to the Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
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, and then took a degree in English at New College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
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(where he was a Trevelyan Scholar and took a leading role in the Oxford University Broadcasting Society
Oxford University Broadcasting Society
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). He went straight into television with Granada
Granada Television
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in Manchester and made his first TV appearances on local programmes in 1967 before moving to London as a freelance.
Quotations
I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."
Brewer's Quotations (London: Cassell, 1994) p. x.