Will's Book Nook: Quote...Unquote Scribblings

 

Quote...Unquote is a long-running BBC Radio panel-style game show. Some of the over 500 panelists are famous actors, authors and personalities, including Dame Judi Dench and some of the members of Monty Python. It ran from 1976 to 2021, when the pandemic finally shut it down. According to Wikipedia, "the main part of the programme consists of a non-competitive quiz where the chairman asks each of three panellists (originally four) 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 queries from listeners about the sources of quotations and the origins of everyday phrases and idioms." The panelists would try to win quotation marks, and the team with the most quotation marks at the end of the four rounds won the game. The winners would get to write a quote about themselves. I enjoyed the many different guests and the outright silliness. I'm not finished with the anthology yet, but I give it 4 out of 5 scribble for now, but I might bump it up to a 5 later.