Issue 1643
dumb britain Celebrity Weakest Link, BBC1
Romesh Ranganathan: In cinema music, tracks entitled "Hotel Room", "The Bathroom" and "The Curtain" feature on the soundtrack to which 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film?
Gladiator: Dad's Army.

Ranganathan: The 1937 novella by John Steinbeck about nomadic workers during the Great Depression was Of Mice and... what?
Celebrity: Cats.


Ten to the Top, Radio 2
Vernon Kay: "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" by Brian & Michael was a tribute to which famous painter from Salford?
Caller: Van Gogh.


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