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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's General Knowledge: Series 1: Episode 4

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

Facts connected to different years between 1970 and 1995, including the fictional character who got a Times obituary. 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, Paul reveals a dazzling list of facts, each one connected to a different year between 1970 and 1995. 

From the fictional character who got a Times obituary to the woman who ruined her TV career by being too mean, this is the closest a comedy show about facts can get to being a Billy Joel song.

Written and performed by Paul Sinha.   

Producer: Ed Morrish

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

Paul Sinha's General Knowledge: Series 1

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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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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