Mitchell Symons, Esq's Biography

Mitchell Symons, Esq's Professional Career

Career

writer and broadcaster; researcher then dir BBC TV 1980-82 (progs incl Friday Night...Saturday Morning, Film 81), TV prodr 1982- (devised: Everybody's Equal 1987-, Your Number Please 1992); a princ writer British & Cwlth edns Trivial Pursuit 1985-86; regular contrib/columnist: Hello! 1988-99, Punch 1989-92, Sunday Magazine 1990-96, Evening Standard 1993-94, Daily Express, Daily Star; conslt: The Mirror 1996, Daily Mail 1996-; also contrib: New Society, The Observer, The Sun, The People, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, Sunday Express; numerous TV appearances (incl What the Papers Say), regular radio broadcaster; visiting lectr Post Graduate Media Broadcasting Course Highbury Coll Portsmouth 1996-99; If It's In the News Columnist of the Year 2002 (for Daily Express column)

Mitchell Symons, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

Forfeit! (1986), The Equation Book of Sports Crosswords (1988), The Equation Book of Movie Crosswords (1988), Journolists 1-4 (with John Koski, 1989-92), Movielists (with John Koski, 1992), Hello! Book of Crosswords (1992), Sunday Book of Crosswords (1992), The Chip & Fry Diet (with Penny Symons, 1992), Hello! Crossword Books 1, 2 and 3 (1994), The Book of Criminal Records (1994), The Man Who Short Circuited The Electric Chair (1996), Chris Tarrant's Dangly Bits (with Chris Tarrant, qv, 1996), The Lists Book (1997), The Celebrity Lists Book (1998), The Bill Clinton Joke Book (1998), The Celebrity Sex Lists Book (1998), National Lottery Big Draw 2000 (with David Thomas, 1999), All In (2000), The Lot (2002), That Book (2003), This Book (2004), The Other Book (2005), Why Girls Can't Throw (2005), The Sudoku Institute Book (with David Thomas, 2005), How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum (2006), How to Speak Celebrity (2006), Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies (2006), My Story (with Penny and Jack Symons, 2007), Don't Get Me Started (2007), Why Eating Bogeys is Good For You (2007, Blue Peter Best Book of the Year (With Facts) 2010), How Much Poo Does an Elephant Do (2008), Why Do Farts Smell Like Rotten Eggs (2009), Why You Need A Passport When You're Going To Puke (2010), Do Igloos Have Loos? (2010), That's So Gross: Animals (2011), That's So Gross: Creepy Crawlies (2011), That's So Gross: History (2011), That's So Gross: Human Body (2011), Don't Wipe Your Bum with a Hedgehog (2012)

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