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Quote Unquote is a light-hearted panel game broadcast based on quotations. Every episode since its inception in 1976 has been chaired by the devisor Nigel Rees. Its 36th series went into production in April 2005.

The programme uses voice over artists to announce the quotations. In 2004, these were Sally Grace, Chris Emmett and William Franklyn and Peter Jefferson.

A number of notable comedy stars have produced the programme, including John Lloyd (Blackadder producer and devisor of QI), comedian Geoffrey Perkins, Have I Got News for You producer Harry Thompson and satirist Armando Iannucci.

The programme's theme tune, between which snatches of quotations are read out at the beginning of each show, is called Duddly Dell, written and performed by Dudley Moore - a B-side of the single Strictly for the Birds (1961).

Nigel Rees' official Quote Unquote website

Radio 4's page