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A series of extended interviews from Colin Murray's Gold Run - one man's quest to meet every living GB gold medallist from the summer Olympics. In these nine episodes, Murray talks to David Bond, Ben Ainslie, the GB 4x100 relay team, Bradley Wiggins, Ann Packer, Daley Thompson, Rebecca Adlington, Sir Chris Hoy, Jonathan Edwards, Linford Christie, Mary Peters, Matthew Pinsent, Duncan Goodhew, the 1988 hockey squad, Gillian Sheen, Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Steve Redgrave.

In this wildly entertaining A to Z of verbal acrobatics, Gyles takes you on a whirlwind tour of our mother tongue – from the origins of words and correct grammar and punctuation, to similes, euphemisms and record breaking tongue twisters (try getting your mouth around floccinaucinihilipification!). An idiosyncratic blend of history, word play, anecdote, and hyperbole, all in 60-second instalments, this is Gyles Brandreth at his word-perfect, Just-a-Minute best. You’ll never mix your metaphors again...

The News Quiz made its debut on Radio 4 in 1977, and decades later it's still playfully making and breaking the headlines of our daily news. If you enjoy your news humorously grilled, with a side order of biting wit, these 14 gems of vintage episodes will be exactly to your taste.