The Unbelievable Truth

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Game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies.

Game show in which panellists compete to see how many nuggets of truth they are able to hide amongst their lies.

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The Unbelievable Truth: Series 21: Episode 2

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Series 21

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Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.

David Mitchell gets Richard Osman, Holly Walsh, Susan Calman and David O'Doherty to lie with some truths. From 2018.

David Mitchell hosts the comedy panel game, in which four guests are encouraged to tell lies. 

They compete to see how many truthful facts they can smuggle past each other. 

The panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as sleep, mobile phones, stealing and pets. 

Richard Osman
Holly Walsh
Susan Calman
David O'Doherty

Producer: Jon Naismith

A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.

The Unbelievable Truth: Series 21

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