About this episode

Frank and Nadia host a quiz at the Festival of Brilliant, featuring guests and unexpected challenges.

Nadia and Frank bring the island back to the fabulous Festival of Brilliant in Staffordshire where there's quizzing to be done. Frank joins his teammate - doodle-tactic Adeola Sokunbi of Destiny Ink fame - in the green room ahead of proceedings to quiz her about her own fabulous arrival in the world of children's books. Meanwhile Nadia's on the hunt for her own teammate, Christopher 'formerly of this parish' Edge, little knowing that Frank has locked him in an escape room. Fortunately Christopher has the Edge on Frank as he's a dab hand at escape rooms obvs - and is all ready to go when the first question's asked. None of this explains why Stuart Maconie is on scoring duty, but some things are best left alone.

People in this episode

Hosts: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nadia Shireen

Guest: Adeola Sokunbi

Topics covered

• quizzing
• children's books
• festival
• teamwork
• escape room

Keywords

• quiz
• children's literature
• festival of brilliant
• escape room
• Adeola Sokunbi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Destiny Ink

Places: Staffordshire

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