A BBC Radio 4 Comedy

Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz: The Collected Series 1 and 2

Paul Sinha and his audience join together to compile the questions for a perfect pub quiz'If you love armchair quizzing, chances are you'll love this' The TimesStand-up star, quizzer and Rose d'Or winner Paul Sinha is banned from taking part in pub quizzes - so he's decided to create his own. In his bid to put together the ultimate syllabus for this great social tradition, he offers up a wealth of surprising and original questions - as well as the fascinating stories behind the answers. He then goes on to open it up to the audience, who attempt to stump him with their own favourite puzzlers.Series 1 comprises four rounds - Literature, The World, Four-Letter Words and Everything - while Series 2 ranges across a variety of topics including New Cities, Themes, Monkeys and Apes, Truth, Chat GPT and 2023. Each show is packed with jokes, puns, fascinating facts and scintillating trivia.Which author's bestselling work was inspired by his filing cabinet? How many countries sit along the Equator? Where was the first British woman to win Miss World born? And which anagram of 'A TWISTED COLON' connects gorillas in 2001 and orangutans in 1978 and 1980? Find out in this quirky, question-packed quiz show!Production creditsWritten and presented by Paul SinhaAdditional material: Oliver LevyAdditional questions: The AudienceOriginal music: Tim SuttonSound engineers: Jerry Peal and David Thomas 
Photographer: Andy HollingworthProduced by Ed MorrishA Lead Mojo production for BBC Radio 4First broadcast BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:Series 1Round One: Literature 21 April 2022Round Two: The World 28 April 2022Round Three: Four-Letter Words 5 May 2022Round Four: Everything 12 May 2022Series 2Episode 1: New Cities 4 September 2023Episode 2: Manchester 11 September 2023Episode 3: Hampshire 18 September 2023Episode 4: Suffolk 25 September 2023Episode 5: Somerset 2 October 2023Episode 6: Themes 9 October 2023Episode 7: Monkeys and Apes 16 October 2023Episode 8: Truth 23 October 2023Episode 9: Chat GPT 30 October 2023Episode 10: 2023 6 November 2023&copy; 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Paul Sinha (Author, Reader) 
Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, broadcaster and champion quizzer, best known for his appearances on TV's The Chase. Formerly a doctor, he left medicine to pursue a comedy career, and hasn't looked back.

Paul Sinha and his audience join together to compile the questions for a perfect pub quiz 
 
'If you love armchair quizzing, chances are you'll love this' The Times 
 
Stand-up star, quizzer and Rose d'Or winner Paul Sinha is banned from taking part in pub quizzes - so he's decided to create his own. In his bid to put together the ultimate syllabus for this great social tradition, he offers up a wealth of surprising and original questions - as well as the fascinating stories behind the answers. He then goes on to open it up to the audience, who attempt to stump him with their own favourite puzzlers. 
 
Series 1 comprises four rounds - Literature, The World, Four-Letter Words and Everything - while Series 2 ranges across a variety of topics including New Cities, Themes, Monkeys and Apes, Truth, Chat GPT and 2023. Each show is packed with jokes, puns, fascinating facts and scintillating trivia. 
 
Which author's bestselling work was inspired by his filing cabinet? How many countries sit along the Equator? Where was the first British woman to win Miss World born? And which anagram of 'A TWISTED COLON' connects gorillas in 2001 and orangutans in 1978 and 1980? Find out in this quirky, question-packed quiz show! 
 
Production credits 
Written and presented by Paul Sinha 
Additional material: Oliver Levy 
Additional questions: The Audience 
Original music: Tim Sutton 
Sound engineers: Jerry Peal and David Thomas 
Photographer: Andy Hollingworth 
Produced by Ed Morrish 
A Lead Mojo production for BBC Radio 4 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: 
 
Series 1 
Round One: Literature 21 April 2022 
Round Two: The World 28 April 2022 
Round Three: Four-Letter Words 5 May 2022 
Round Four: Everything 12 May 2022 
 
Series 2 
Episode 1: New Cities 4 September 2023 
Episode 2: Manchester 11 September 2023 
Episode 3: Hampshire 18 September 2023 
Episode 4: Suffolk 25 September 2023 
Episode 5: Somerset 2 October 2023 
Episode 6: Themes 9 October 2023 
Episode 7: Monkeys and Apes 16 October 2023 
Episode 8: Truth 23 October 2023 
Episode 9: Chat GPT 30 October 2023 
Episode 10: 2023 6 November 2023 
 
&copy; 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Quiz Culture, Citizenship Test and more

Paul Sinha: A BBC Radio 4 Collection

Five fantastic shows from The Chase's 'Sinnerman', award-winning comic and broadcaster Paul Sinha 
 
'One of our most thoughtful and enjoyable comedians' The Times 
 
Paul Sinha loves a quiz. Not only is he the sixth-ranked quizzer in the UK, he's also a regular on Radio 4's long-running Round Britain Quiz and a resident Chaser on ITV's The Chase. In these collected BBC shows, Paul offers us his unique perspective as a quizmaster, stand-up star, ex-GP and second-generation migrant, as he takes a comedic look at British culture, history, nationalism and sport. 
 
Paul Sinha's Quiz Culture sees him travelling to the European Quizzing Championships in Derby, to meet the Continent's superstars, pit his skills against them, and find out why trivia has become such a serious business. In Paul Sinha's Citizenship Test, he examines the test that newcomers to Britain must pass to become citizens, and finds the questions deeply disappointing. Deciding he can do better, he rewrites it to reflect his own ideas of Britishness, focussing on the history syllabus, the arts, health and social cohesion. 
 
The Sinha Carta finds Paul scrutinising England's most important legal document, Magna Carta, explaining what's in it, why it's brilliant, and how it came to be. He also suggests some new, up-to-date additions, for a Magna Carta fit for a modern Britain. In The Sinha Test, Paul draws on his experience as a proudly English son of Indian immigrants to conduct a comic analysis of cricket, national identity and divided loyalties. Finally, in The Sinha Games, he weighs up the pros and cons of hosting the Olympics. Using archive material, interviews, jokes and heavy sarcasm, he examines the past, present and future of the Games, as well as talking to the gold medallist who most influenced him as a young man - his former teacher, Olympic pentathlete Andy Archibald. 
 
Production credits 
Written and performed by Paul Sinha 
 
Paul Sinha's Quiz Culture 
Produced by Monise Durrani 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12 March 2011 
 
Paul Sinha's Citizenship Test 
Produced by Ed Morrish 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4 Extra on the following dates: 
 
1 History Syllabus 5 August 2013 
2 Health of the Nation 12 August 2013 
3 British Culture 19 August 2013 
4 British Greatness 26 August 2013 
 
The Sinha Carta 
Produced by Ed Morrish 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 11 February 2015 
 
The Sinha Test 
Produced by Ed Morrish 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 14 July 2011 
 
The Sinha Games 
Produced by Ed Morrish 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 24 July 2012 
 
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Paul Sinha (Author, Reader) Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, broadcaster and champion quizzer, best known for his appearances on TV's The Chase. Formerly a doctor, he left medicine to pursue a comedy career, and hasn't looked back.

Paul Sinha's History Revision: The Complete Series 1-3

Comedian and quizzer Paul Sinha tells the fascinating stories from human history that we have forgotten.

Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a listen

In his fascinating and hilarious BBC Radio 4 stand up show, comedian and quizzer Paul Sinha shines a light on the important historical moments that you never got taught at school, and explains why so much of what you did learn is wrong. There will also, as ever, be puns. 
 
He explains how Portugal's invasion of Morocco in 1415 led directly to the 2014 World Cup; how the 1909 launch of an Austro-Hungarian submarine prevented Dr Zhivago from winning an Oscar; and the story of the black woman who refused to give up a seat on an Alabama bus and ended up changing the law - no, it wasn't Rosa Parks. 
 
"Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a listen" - The Telegraph 
 
Paul Sinha is an acclaimed stand-up who was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy award for his show Saint or Sinha?. He frequently appears on The News Quiz, The Now Show, and Fighting Talk, and he is a resident 'chaser' on the ITV quiz show The Chase. He wrote and starred in The Sinha Test (2011) and The Sinha Games (2012) on Radio 4 and in 2013 had his own four-part series, Paul Sinha's Citizenship Test. 
 
Paul Sinha’s History Revision was the winner of the 2016 Rose d’Or Award for 'Best Radio Comedy'. 
 
Written and performed by: Paul Sinha 
Producer: Ed Morrish

Paul Sinha

Just when I thought I had the market sewn up for memoirs about gay former doctors who went to Dulwich College then the University of London, here comes this wonderful book by Paul Sinha. Uncompromisingly honest, and just as funny as his stand-up (which is very funny indeed).

One Sinha Lifetime is smart, funny and thoroughly entertaining. Paul Sinha is as sharp and witty when he’s recounting the worst days of his life, as he is when re-living the best and I simply couldn’t get enough! I loved it!

One Sinha Lifetime is an eloquent, pithy, painfully honest book in which the subject doesn’t shy away from his flaws. It is not particularly about comedy because there has been so much more to his life. He doesn’t attempt to paint a picture of himself as perfect. He admits to having alcohol problems, gambling problems and relationship struggles. He knew he was gay from an early age but always feared coming out to his parents. In the end, of course, when they found out it was simply not an issue. One Sinha Lifetime is not just laugh-out-loud funny, it is inspiring too.

Paul's book is beautiful, sad, funny and a reminder of the fragility of this thing called life. Love shines through it. The love of his family, his husband, his quizzing and his comedy. I cannot though, however hard I try, imagine him stood in front of a Jongleurs audience. That simply does not compute. Everyone needs to check out Perfect Pub Quiz, his Radio 4 show. One of the best things out there.

I loved Paul's autobiography (and it has the best title I’ve seen in some time!). Lots of fascinating insights into the worlds of quizzing and comedy, disarming honesty, great jokes and some deliciously waspish pen portraits of people he’s met along the way…

One Sinha Lifetime is as funny as you'd expect from as brilliant and witty a stand-up as Paul Sinha, but you might not be prepared for how raw, open and honest it is. So much more than a memoir of a comedian, this is a story of love and loneliness, of loss and triumph and it speaks quite beautifully to the balancing act second generation immigrants have to pull off to find a way to be who we really are. You'll cheer Paul every step of the way as he navigates that tricky path with bravery and humour.

Comedy, disaster and one man’s quest for happiness

'That night, I'd survived my life flashing before me, with my dignity intact. 
Yes, this chaotic life has always been a gamble. 
... But what a gamble.' 
 
Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, a quizzing mastermind and a happily-married husband. But for much of his life none of these seemed remotely imaginable. 
 
As a boy, Paul struggled to find his place in a world where he didn't quite fit. Who was he? An over-achieving schoolkid with the world's knowledge at his fingertips? A traditional Bengali son, destined for a career in medicine that he never once craved? A young gay man yearning to breathe freely? Or was he yet another flawed human being on a self-destruct mission? 
 
Amid life's mayhem, it was frequently Paul's love of facts in which he found solace, whether funding his lifestyle through quiz machines or simply trying to show off to his mates. Stumbling serendipitously into both a career in stand-up and a clandestine network of competitive quizzers introduced him to a new sense of purpose, a new identity, and, eventually, new love... 
 
A hilarious and moving coming-of-age memoir of one man's search for fulfilment, One Sinha Lifetime is an unconventional odyssey through love, family, and the joy of general knowledge.

Paul Sinha

Praise for One Sinha Lifetime

Just when I thought I had the market sewn up for memoirs about gay former doctors who went to Dulwich College then the University of London, here comes this wonderful book by Paul Sinha. Uncompromisingly honest, ...

One Sinha Lifetime is smart, funny and thoroughly entertaining. Paul Sinha is as sharp and witty when he’s recounting the worst days of his life, as he is when re-living the best and I simply couldn’t get ...

A lovely and funny book.

Just when I thought I had the market sewn up for memoirs about gay former doctors who went to Dulwich College then the University of London, here comes this wonderful book by Paul Sinha. Uncompromisingly honest, ...

One Sinha Lifetime is smart, funny and thoroughly entertaining. Paul Sinha is as sharp and witty when he’s recounting the worst days of his life, as he is when re-living the best and I simply couldn’t get ...

A lovely and funny book.

Just when I thought I had the market sewn up for memoirs about gay former doctors who went to Dulwich College then the University of London, here comes this wonderful book by Paul Sinha. Uncompromisingly honest, ...

One Sinha Lifetime is smart, funny and thoroughly entertaining. Paul Sinha is as sharp and witty when he’s recounting the worst days of his life, as he is when re-living the best and I simply couldn’t get ...

A lovely and funny book.

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