The Personality Test
Host
Changes each week
Co-hosts
Regular panellists: Sue Perkins and Robin Ince
Broadcast
BBC Radio 4, 12 July 2006 to 9 August 2007 (16 episodes in 3 series)
Synopsis
Surprisingly freeform panel game where the game is based around the celebrity host, who changes each week - in a neat reversal, it's the panel of comedians that remains the same. Said comics have a week to mug up on the biography of said celeb and try to answer the questions, often revolving around choice anecdotes from their autobiography.
The warm-up round involves the comics providing a satirical shortened version of the host's life. The middle bit is varied, and there's the obligatory buzzer round at the end. Quite silly and quite funny.
Hosts
The hosts and subjects for the programme were:
Summer 2006 series
- 12 July - John Sergeant
- 19 July - Greg Dyke
- 26 July - Gyles Brandreth
- 2 August - Jennie Bond
2006-7 series
- 7 Dec - Roy Hattersley
- 14 Dec - Rick Wakeman
- 21 Dec - Adam Hart-Davis
- 28 Dec - Antony Worral-Thompson
- 4 Jan 2007 - Claire Rayner
- 11 Jan - Esther Rantzen
Summer 2007
- 5 July - Janet Street-Porter
- 12 July - Lorraine Kelly
- 19 July - Andrew Neil
- 26 July - Edwina Currie
- 2 August - Toyah Willcox
- 9 August - Eve Pollard
Inventor
Aled Evans