Richard Osman

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18,083 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2018 last heard 9 Sep

Richard Osman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Entertainment · Take A Break Fiction Feast's AI Fake Mistake · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

They're all watermarked. voice-verified

They know exactly whose script is who. voice-verified

They're red, so you can't photocopy. voice-verified

I mean, more prosaic, but in the world of quiz shows, one of the absolute keys is it has to be fair. voice-verified

You have to make sure no one's seen any of the questions. voice-verified

You have to make sure that no one knows what happens. voice-verified

And every single quiz show has an independent adjudicator who is in charge of all of that stuff. voice-verified

It keeps everything under a lock and key. voice-verified

I mean, we used to do that with the prize money on Million Pound Drop, for sure. voice-verified

I mean, that never came off a handcuff at any point because it was real money. voice-verified

We wanted to have real money there. voice-verified

But in terms of quiz questions, there was one quiz which they recorded a whole series of. voice-verified

I won't say what it was called. voice-verified

And they realized that the person on podium one could just about see over the presenter's shoulder where the question and the answer was. voice-verified

were shown they didn't think anyone had done it at all but the very fact that they could have done it meant they scrapped the entire series everything has to be complete not on house of games because there's no because the prizes are meaningless but on like on a normal question or a millionaire or something like that yeah voice-verified

The people know that. voice-verified

So it's absolutely the security of it, deal or no deal as well, where you literally have an independent adjudicator by themselves putting all the bits of money into the different boxes using like a random number generator. voice-verified

I mean, nobody could go anywhere near it. voice-verified

And, you know, the privacy you have to have on your computers just in case someone could hack into the questions. voice-verified

It's a huge, huge deal because if you lose that integrity... voice-verified

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