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20070412Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20070419Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20070913Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20070920Stewart Henderson answers questions from everyday life.

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20070927Stewart Henderson answers questions from everyday life.

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20071004Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20071011Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20071018Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20071025Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20071101Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20071108Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20071115Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080403Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080410Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080417Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080424Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080501Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080508Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080515Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080522Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080529Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080605Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080904Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080911Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080918Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20080925Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20081002Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20081009Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20081016Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20081023Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20081030Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20081106Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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20090723Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20090730Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20090806Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20090813Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20090820Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20090827Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20091224Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20091231Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20100107Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20100114Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20100121Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20100128Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from everyday life.

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20100722Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

QQ has become something of an institution on Radio 4, providing informed and ingenious answers to questions such as:

How do you know when a volcano is extinct?

When was the conventional heart icon first drawn?

How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp?

Why do we put pork with apple and lamb with mint sauce?

Email: questions.questions@bbc.co.uk

Tel: 03700 100400

Or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 message board.

Producer: Dilly Barlow

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving programme.

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20100729Stewart Henderson presents the interactive programme for those niggling questions.

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20100805Stewart Henderson presents the interactive programme for those niggling questions.

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20100812Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving programme for those niggling questions.

Email Questions.questions@bbc.co.uk

Tel: 03700 100400 or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 message board.

Presenter: Stewart Henderson

Producer: Dilly Barlow

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson presents the interactive programme for those niggling questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

20100819Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving programme for those niggling questions.

Email Questions.questions@bbc.co.uk

Tel: 03700 100400 or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 message board.

Presenter: Stewart Henderson

Producer: Dilly Barlow

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson presents the interactive programme for those niggling questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

20100826Stewart Henderson presents the interactive programme for those niggling questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

20101223Stewart Henderson returns to Radio 4 with a sparkling new series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of every day life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Now in its eighteenth series, QQ has become something of an institution on Radio 4 providing informed and ingenious answers to questions such as, How do you know when a volcano is extinct? When was the conventional heart icon first drawn? How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? What is a Siamese Blood Chit?

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

In this richly informative programme all manner of questions are looked into. Some recent enquiries that sparked particularly large responses included: What happened to all the wrought iron fencing that was collected during the Second World War? Is it possible to create one sound, which completely cancels out another sound? How was the direction of writing originally established?

Producer: Kevin Dawson

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson returns with a sparkling new series of Questions Questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

20101230Stewart Henderson continues his sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? How do you know if a volcano is extinct? This is the programme which answers listener questions on just about everything.

Email: questions.questions@bbc.co.uk

Tel: 03700 100400

Or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 message board.

Producer: Kevin Dawson

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson presents the programme which answers listener questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

20110106Stewart Henderson continues his sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of every day life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? How do you know if a volcano is extinct? This is the programme which answers listener questions on just about everything.

Email Questions.questions@bbc.co.uk

Tel: 03700 100400

Or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 message board.

Producer: Kevin Dawson

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson presents the programme which answers listener questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

20110113Stewart Henderson continues his sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of every day life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? How do you know if a volcano is extinct? This is the programme which answers listener questions on just about everything.

Email Questions.questions@bbc.co.uk

Tel: 03700 100400

Or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 message board.

Producer: Kevin Dawson

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson presents the programme that answers listener questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

20110120The programme which seeks out answers to listeners' queries. This week, presenter Stewart Henderson discovers why handkerchiefs were so popular with Victorian pickpockets, he delves into the origins of the playground game Pudducks and he contemplates the challenges of undertaking long distance horse journeys.

Reporter Emily Williams learns how to shrink a head, and meets a man who manufactures 'heads' to order.

Email: questions.questions@bbc.co.uk

Tel: 03700 100400

Or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 message board.

Producer: Kevin Dawson

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson presents the programme that answers listener questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

20110127Stewart Henderson presents the programme which provides answers to listeners' questions on just about anything.

This week he undertakes a quest to discover the origins of the area Sodom and Gomorrah in Suffolk, reporter Dave Dodd finds out whether it really is feasible for a plant seed to take root in the human body, and Stewart finds out what it is that motivates a camel to spit.

Producer: Kevin Dawson

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

The programme that finds answers to listeners' questions.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

2011072120111220 (R4)Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

In this weeks programme Stewart travels to Cornwall to explore the musical heritage of tin mining, he investigates the origins of the collective nouns for birds and asks how we recognise voices.

Producer: Kevin Dawson

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson explores the musical heritage of tin mining, plus collective nouns.

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2011072820111227 (R4)Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

In the programme this week, Stewart is pondering the universal appeal of the protest chant, he'll also be letting you in on the secret signals frogs use to let each other know the exact day to spawn. Our roving reporter Dave Dodd has been to Dunwich to investigate whether you can hear the church bells from drowned villages tolling under the waves. And County Durham, why is it the only County in England to use the prefix County? A tale of powerful bishops and penny posts unravels a complex history.

Producer: Kate Taylor

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson ponders the universal appeal of the protest chant.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

2011080420120103 (R4)Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

In the programme this week, Stewart begins by finding out why tea and coffee pots are different shapes. He sets out on a mission to discover what the Neolithic structures called 'quoits' reveal, grabs a magnifying glass to examine the history of the flea circus and has a good time sampling the answer to the conundrum, what is a wingwom?

Producer: Kate Taylor

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson finds out why tea and coffee pots are different shapes.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

2011081120120110 (R4)Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

In this week's programme Stewart ventures into the mystery of the maze to find out what exactly these landscaped convolutions were for. And from mazes to webs - the worldwide one to be precise, he finds out just how much power it takes to keep such technological wizardry going. And finally, armed with a trowel he drops into the city of Verulamium below St. Albans to find out why ancient settlements end up underneath us.

Producer: Kate Taylor

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

The mystery of the maze and why ancient settlements end up underneath us.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

2011081820120117 (R4)Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

In this week's programme Stewart looks into why the swallow sometimes flies high and sometimes low - and does its choice of altitude really predict the weather? Questions about jewellery made of hair are answered by a Swedish hair jewellery expert and a listener has their query about the strange phenomenon of 'green eye' when photographing pets answered. And, guaranteed to start you scratching, Stewart finds out about new developments to see off nits with lethal efficiency.

Producer: Kate Taylor

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Henderson looks into why the swallow sometimes flies high and sometimes low.

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

2011082520120124 (R4)Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.

Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.

In this week's programme Stewart helps a listener who has long been mystified as to why bacon comes in rashers but everything else in slices. He finds out why so many Greek theatres were built close to the coast and about a strange seaside phenomenon, the mechanical elephant. And, with Buster Keaton in mind, he discovers how fast a car would need to go to lift you off your feet and fly you horizontally behind it!

Producer: Kate Taylor

A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.

Why does bacon comes in rashers but everything else in slices?

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0320070426Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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0420070503Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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0520070510Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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0620070517Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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0720070524Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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0820070531Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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0920070607Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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1020070614Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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