The Unbelievable Truth 

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

David Mitchell gets Sandi Toksvig, Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Graeme Garden to lie with some truths. From 2019.

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 drunkenness, passports, orange and the weather. 

Sandi Toksvig
Jon Richardson
Lucy Porter
Graeme Garden 

Producer: Jon Naismith.

A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2019.

The Unbelievable Truth: Series 21

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