Pointless Celebrities: Test Match Special


3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Monday, April 13 on Challenge (48)

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About this Broadcast

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Test Match Special
Season 8, Episode 1

Alexander Armstrong presents the general knowledge quiz as famous faces from BBC radio programme Test Match Special take part, featuring Graeme Swann and Alison Mitchell, Michael Vaughan and Phil Tufnell, Melinda Farrell and Jonathan Agnew, and Ebony Rainford-Brent and Henry Blofeld. The famous faces try to come up with the least likely correct answers to a series of questions posed to members of the public. Co-presenter Richard Osman has all the answers


subtitles repeat 16x9
Quiz Show Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Richard Osman (Co host)
Graeme Swann (Contestant)
Alison Mitchell (Contestant)
Michael Vaughan (Contestant)
Phil Tufnell (Contestant)
Melinda Farrell (Contestant)
Jonathan Agnew (Contestant)
Henry Blofeld (Contestant)
Michelle Woods (Executive producer)
James Fox (Executive producer)
Dom Waugh (Executive producer)
John Ryan (Series producer)

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Did You Know..

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Alexander Armstrong (Presenter)
Born: August 14, 1970 in Rothbury, Northumberland
Best Known For: The Armstrong and Miller Show.
Early-life: Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong was born in Northumberland on March 2, 1970. His father is a distant relative of Ralph Richardson, and an appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? showed him to be a direct descendent of William the Conqueror. Alexander was a gifted pianist as a child but was nervous about featuring in concerts. At Cambridge University, he performed with the Footlights entertainment troupe, where he was the comedy partner of Spooks creator David Wolstencroft.
Career: Armstrong made his film and TV debuts in 1994 in There's No Business and A Breed of Heroes. He was introduced to Ben Miller in 1996 and their subsequent success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe led to their first sketch series in 1997; they've worked together a number of times since on various projects. Armstrong played the lead in short-lived sitcom Beast. He has also appeared in Birthday Girl (2001), I Saw You, TLC, Saxondale, Life Begins, The Trial of Tony Blair, Mutual Friends, Woody Allen's Match Point (2005) and Scoop (2006). Armstrong was the voice of supercomputer Mr Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures, appeared in the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas Special and has presented the BBC game show Pointless since 2009. In recent years, he has also voiced Danger Mouse in the revival of the animated series and presented Rome's Invisible City, Land of the Midnight Sun and Don't Ask Me Ask Britain.
Quote: 'Offers come up all the time, and I'm getting better at saying no to things, and just picking the things that amuse me.'
Trivia: In 2010, he won a Bafta TV Award for The Armstrong and Miller Show.
Richard Osman (Co host)
Born: November 28, 1970 in Billericay
Best Known For: Pointless.
Early-life: Richard Thomas Osman was born in Billericay on November 28, 1970, but grew up in West Sussex. He was raised by his single mum after his father left home - they didn't see each other for 20 years. Richard studied politics and sociology at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his future Pointless colleague Alexander Armstrong was reading English literature. He claims that one of his proudest moments came when his mum and grandfather watched his graduation.
Career: Osman has worked behind the scenes as an executive producer on a number of TV programmes, including Deal or No Deal, 8 Out of 10 Cats, and 10 O'Clock Live. As the UK creative director of TV production company Endemol, he pitched the quiz Pointless to the BBC. As a way of explaining the rules, he played the co-host during a run-through. He was asked to do the role for real when the show was commissioned. Pointless started on BBC Two in 2009 and was an immediate hit. It quickly made the switch to BBC One. Since being in the spotlight on Pointless, he has made guest appearances on QI, Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You? He also guest presented an episode of The One Show alongside Alex Jones.
Quote: 'Whenever I turn up to pub quizzes now, I see people going: ‘Urgh, that's the guy who knows everything.''
Trivia: He is the younger brother of Mat Osman, bassist with Suede, and suffers from nystagmus, a condition that results in uncontrolled movement of the eyes.
Graeme Swann (Contestant)
Alison Mitchell (Contestant)
Michael Vaughan (Contestant)
Born: October 29, 1974 in Eccles, Manchester
Best Known For: Captaining the England cricket team.
Early-life: Michael Paul Vaughan was born on October 29, 1974, in Eccles, Manchester. Two of his ancestors, Johnny and Ernest Tyldesley, played cricket for Lancashire and England. The family moved to Sheffield when Michael was nine, where he became hooked on playing football, and developed a lifelong love of Sheffield Wednesday. He became interested in cricket after being encouraged by his older brother, David, and watching their dad play for an amateur team.
Career: Vaughan caught the eye of Yorkshire coach Doug Padgett while playing for his school team. However, he had to wait for Yorkshire to alter their rules about only signing home-grown players before he could join the county. He went on to captain the England under-19 team, and made his full Test debut against South Africa in 1999. He became captain after Nasser Hussein quit in 2003. The team was hugely successful, winning the Ashes in 2005, but following a series defeat against South Africa in 2008, he resigned during an emotional press conference. Vaughan retired from first class cricket a year later. He is now a respected commentator. In 2012, he partnered professional dancer Natalie Lowe on Strictly Come Dancing.
Quote: 'I'd have probably preferred to be a footballer if I could have been good enough. But my knees would never have lasted.'
Trivia: Vaughan lives with his wife Nichola and three children, Tallula Grace, Archie Matthew, and Jemima.
Phil Tufnell (Contestant)
Born: April 29, 1966 in Barnet, London
Best Known For: His glittering cricket career and various TV appearances.
Early-life: Philip Clive Roderick Tufnell was born in Barnet, London, on April 29, 1966. He went to Highgate School where his cricketing prowess was recognised and he was appointed captain of the Junior School's First XI despite the fact he was not yet in the top year. On leaving Highgate he attended, and played cricket for, Southgate School. He then trained as a quantity surveyor, but remained associated with the sport and eventually dropped his original career choice.
Career: A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, 'Tuffers' as he was known played 42 Tests and 20 One Day International matches for England, as well as playing for Middlesex from 1986 to 2002. He took 121 Test wickets as an England bowler, but it is his good-humour and occasionally outrageous behaviour that made him a popular sports personality. Following his retirement in 2002, Tufnell has built on his popularity with several TV appearances. These include I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! which he won, They Think It's All Over, A Question of Sport, The One Show and Strictly Come Dancing. In early 2015, he was a contestant on Channel 4 reality series The Jump.
Quote: On fame: 'A 25-stone hairy bloke asked me to sign his bum. I ran a mile!'
Trivia: In 2011, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University.
Melinda Farrell (Contestant)
Jonathan Agnew (Contestant)
Ebony Rainford-Brent (Contestant)
Henry Blofeld (Contestant)
Michelle Woods (Executive producer)
James Fox (Executive producer)
Dom Waugh (Executive producer)
John Ryan (Series producer)

Before / After

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The Chase
2:00 pm