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John Lloyd

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Born: September 29 1951

John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd CBE is a British comedy writer and television producer. Lloyd was Trinity College, Cambridge, where he befriended and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams. He worked as a radio producer at the BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born and Quote... Unquote . He wrote Hordes of the Things with Andrew Marshall, co-authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams and then went on to co-write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with him. Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989 where he created Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image . He also produced all 4 Blackadder series. Lloyd was originally to have been the host of BBC topical news quiz Have I Got News For You, but was replaced by Angus Deayton.

His first new TV series for 14 years, QI , starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, began on 11 September 2003 at 10pm on BBC2 for a run of 12 episodes. In its eighth series, which started on BBC One in September 2010, Lloyd appeared as a panelist in one of the episodes. All the episodes of QI have been directed by Ian Lorimer. Lloyd currently presents the radio series, The Museum of Curiosity , which he co-created with producers Richard Turner & Dan Schreiber and former co-host Bill Bailey. Lloyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.

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Books from John Lloyd

The Book of General Ignorance

1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917

The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong

The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong

The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure

Funny You Should Ask . . .: Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves

1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance

Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations

1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop: Fixed Format Layout

1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted

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The Meaning of Liff

Doctor Who: The Doomsday Contract

QI Books Collection John Lloyd & Mitchinson 4 Books Bundle

Not the Royal Wedding

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Bound by Choice

10,000 QI Facts: A Brain-Busting Box Set