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David Mitchell gets Zoe Lyons, Richard Osman, Henning Wehn, and Holly Walsh to lie with some truths. From July 2021.

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies.

They compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.

The panellists are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as the Ancient Romans, tea, crustaceans and balls.

With:

Holly Walsh
Henning Wehn
Zoe Lyons
Richard Osman

Producer: Jon Naismith

A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2021.

28 minutes

Last on

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