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David Mitchell gets Alan Davies, Lucy Porter, Holly Walsh, and Tony Hawks to lie with some truths. From April 2022.

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 glasses, squirrels, Alexander the Great and China.

With:

Alan Davies
Lucy Porter
Holly Walsh
Tony Hawks

Producer: Jon Naismith

A Random Entertainment production for 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.

28 minutes

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Fri 14 Feb 2025 14:00

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