With a 'virtual audience'

Paul Sinha is to make a second series of his Radio 4 show General Knowledge. 

In the show, the comedian, quizzer and TV Chaser links trivia and true stories as he grills his audience on various facts.

The new series is to be recorded using the BBC’s new ‘virtual audience recording system’, which aims to recreate the feeling of being in a live studio audience by combining Zoom feeds. The technology was previously tested on the Infinite Monkey Cage with Robin Ince and Brian Cox.

A draw for tickets for the recordings of the next episodes of   Paul Sinha’s General Knowledge, on July 14 and 28, is now open on the BBC’s audience website.

In series one, which aired last year, Sinha described the chaos of that was the 1904 Olympic marathon, Donald Trump's pizza adverts, and the only fictional character to have received an obituary on the front of The New York Times (Hercule Poirot).

Published: 8 Jul 2020