Paul Sinha's General Knowledge

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Paul Sinha improves your general knowledge with fascinating facts and true stories

Award-winning comedian and quizzer Paul Sinha improves your general knowledge through fascinating facts and hilarious true stories.

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Paul Sinha improves your general knowledge with fascinating facts and hilarious stories.

What connects an Emmy-winning actor and an electro-pop pioneer? Plus, some sporting barely-believable but true facts. From 2019.

Paul Sinha - comedian, lapsed GP, Chaser and genuinely the fourth best quizzer in the United Kingdom, is here to tell you about... well, everything.

As a competitive quizzer, Paul learns fascinating facts all the time. As a curious man, he then looks up the stories behind those facts and they often turn out to be even more fascinating. In this series Paul Sinha's improves your general knowledge sharing fascinating facts and hilarious stories.

In this episode, a question about the connection between an Emmy-winning actor and an electro-pop pioneer.  

Then we move through the world of sport in search of barely-believable but true facts, including one of Britain's greatest-ever cyclists - and the unusual circumstances around the 1904 Olympic Marathon.

Written and performed by Paul Sinha.

Producer:  Ed Morrish

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.

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Paul Sinha tells as many little-known stories as he can in half an hour.

Paul Sinha tells little-known stories from as many different subject areas as he can cram into half an hour.

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