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The third series of programmes in which Steve Punt turns super-sleuth, examining little mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile.

The second series of programmes featuring Steve Punt in his role as private investigator, examining little mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile. In these three episodes, he looks into persistent rumours that Hitler was intending to set up his command headquarters in Balham; goes on the trail of TV detector vans, investigating rumours that the vehicles are little more than a myth and turns the spotlight on mind control, entering a murky work of government intelligence, military secrecy and wild speculation.

Steve Punt returns for a fourth series as BBC Radio 4's very own gumshoe, examining little mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile. In these four episodes, he re-opens a case of murder by poisoned partridge in 1931; endeavors to find out the truth about the British inventor of a 'Death Ray'.

Time travel, wormholes, a lost security pass and a nice cup of tea. These are the elements that constitute Steve Punt's Theory of Grand Unified Comedy as he presents "Big Bang Day, The Genuine Particle" whirling into existence on BBC Radio 4. Starring Reece Shearsmith and Geoffrey Whitehead, it's a comedy thriller set underground in the Large Hadron Collider and bears the unique property that every bit of physics in it is true. Theoretically at least.

A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three University students take on a team of three of their professors. The show is recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz.

The show is recorded on location at a different university each week, and it pits three undergraduates against three of their professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the ‘Highbrow & Lowbrow’ round cunningly devised to test not only the students’ knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science but also their professors’ awareness of television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber....