World Quiz
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Host
Kenneth Horne (1967-8)
John Tidmarsh (1969)
Broadcast
BBC Radio 2, 2 October 1967 to 25 December 1969 (39 episodes in 3 series + 1 speical)
Synopsis
Three-way general knowledge contest from the Round Britain Quiz stable involving teams from the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Each series had the appropriate year appended to its title (World Quiz '67, etc.) and all three series were won by teams from New Zealand. The UK team comprised RBQ regular Irene Thomas and Brain of Britain champ turned question-setter Ian Gillies.
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Trivia
If you're thinking "I could have sworn this was a Radio 1 show", you're half-right. In its early days, Radio 1 didn't fill all of its hours by itself and would often take a simulcast of Radio 2 instead, so the 1967 and 1969 series (minus the Christmas special) were both simulcast this way.
John Tidmarsh took over after the death of Kenneth Horne.