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Treasure Quest: Extra TimeTreasure Quest: Ten Years OnTen years of Treasure Quest

Some pictures from across a decade of our Sunday morning clue-hunting show.

  • Becky Betts, the original Treasure Quest clue-hunter, with the first radio car the show used in 2008
  • Presenter David Clayton in the studio during a Treasure Quest in 2011
  • Since 2009, the show has held an annual stage show in aid of Children in Need at the Norwich Playhouse
  • One of the show's most memorable episodes came on Valentine's Day in 2010
  • A great tradition of the show is the annual two-part special, which usually takes place at Easter
  • After five years of clue-hunting, Becky left the show at the end of the 2013 Easter two-parter
  • Becky was succeeded by two of those who'd been regular stands-ins for her - Kirsteen Thorne and Julie Reinger
  • Julie took the record for the closest-ever Treasure Quest win when she found a treasure with Doctor Who's K9 in August 2013
  • It was also in August 2013 that Sophie Little first stood-in as the clue-hunter
  • In 2014, Sophie took over from Julie in the regular role alternating with Kirsteen
  • In the autumn of 2015, Kirsteen stepped-down from her Sunday morning role
  • In April 2016, David Clayton left the show as he retired from the BBC
  • Sophie's new Sunday morning team-mate was David Whiteley
  • Anna Perrott has done every job on the show: phone-answerer, driver, stand-in Questmistress, clue-hunter and presenter
  • On Mothering Sunday in 2017, Anna and Sophie met their mums at the end of the quest!
  • The Treasure Quest family on stage at the Norwich Playhouse in November 2017
  • Over the years, the show has raised over £60,000 for the BBC Children in Need Appeal
  • This year, just before Sophie went off on maternity leave, David swapped places with her
  • The team in the studio at the end of Sophie's last show before her maternity leave, in February 2018

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