Elephant In The Room

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Elephant in the Room

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Sarah Millican hosts a new show using surveys to discover who is most average.

Sarah Millican hosts a new show using surveys to discover who on her sparkling panel is the most Average Jolene, and who is the most Maverick Matilda.

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Sarah Millican's panel show with two winners - Average Jolene and Maverick Matilda.

Sandi Toksvig, Angela Barnes, Harriet Dyer and Phil Wang decide who’s Average Jolene or Maverick Matilda. From 2019.

Sarah Millican hosts a panel show using surveys to discover who is the most Average Jolene, and who is the most Maverick Matilda. 

On the sparkling panel:

Sandi Toksvig
Angela Barnes
Harriet Dyer
Phil Wang

Surveys on subjects including childhood, daily rituals and favourite cheese are the basis for Sarah's questions to the panellists, discovering who is the closest to, and furthest from, the average. Surprising quirks, hilarious insights and unexpected anecdotes are revealed along the way.

The winner will be the most average. But joint winner will be the most different, the furthest from the norm. 

A little bit like a dinner party, but one where you know all of the spoons. 

A Chopsy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2019.

Elephant in the Room: Series 1

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Sarah Millican's hit panel show with two winners - Average Jolene and Maverick Matilda.

Sarah Millican hit show using surveys to discover who on her sparkling panel is the most Average Jolene, and who is the most Maverick Matilda.

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