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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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Frankie Boyle

Jeremy Hardy

Lucy Porter

Jon Naismith

The Unbelievable Truth: Series 17: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 17

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

David Mitchell gets John Finnemore, Frankie Boyle, Jeremy Hardy and Lucy Porter to lie with some truths. From 2016.

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents. 

John Finnemore, Frankie Boyle, Jeremy Hardy and Lucy Porter are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy.

Subjects are as varied as Donald Trump, musicals, weddings and Oxbridge.

Devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. 

Producer: Jon Naismith 

A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2016.

The Unbelievable Truth: Series 17

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David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies

David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents

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