The Unbelievable Truth [files not found]

NOTE: The MP3 files used by this podcast appear to be missing. They may have been removed permanently from their source location. The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game described as "the panel game built on truth and lies", devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. The game is chaired by David Mitchell. The object of the game is to lie on a subject, whilst also trying to include the truth without being detected. The panel is made up of four players. In the game each of the...

NOTE: The MP3 files used by this podcast appear to be missing. They may have been removed permanently from their source location. The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game described as "the panel game built on truth and lies", devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. The game is chaired by David Mitchell. The object of the game is to lie on a subject, whilst also trying to include the truth without being detected. The panel is made up of four players. In the game each of the panelists is given a subject on which they give a short lecture. Most of the lecture is composed of lies, but during the course of the speech the lecturer must try to smuggle five true statements past the rest of the panel. The challenging panelists must buzz in when they believe that what the lecturer is saying is true. They must state what they believe the fact was. If it was true, the challenger is awarded one point. If it was a lie, then they are deducted one point. One point is given to the lecturer for each truth they smuggle successfully without it being detected at the end of the lecture. The winner is the panelist with the most points. The series was first broadcast as a pilot on 19 October 2006, with the first actual series broadcast from 23 April 2007. Its current, sixteenth, series began airing in March 2016.