# Anywhere I can get a copy of "The Unbelievable Truth" informational texts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129 "2013-02-02T17:38:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129/1 "2013-02-02T17:38:43Z")
I’m a teacher and want to play “The Unbelievable Truth” with my kids. For those unaware, David Mitchell(comedian, not Cloud Atlas author) hosts a BBC radio show called The Unbelievable Truth. In it, panelists read several paragraph-length informational texts…that are almost entirely false. In each, 5 actual truths are contained and the players guess the real fact. I’d love to some from the game and play the game with my advanced classes at school. Is there a place to get transcripts or copies of the texts? If not the actual ones, are there any “copycat” ones, so to speak? I have to admit, the kids would love the game and I hope we can play it. Thanks. I am willing to take actual transcripts of the show and copy/cut/paste the stuff together and so forth; I did not see any actual transcripts online. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129/2 "2013-02-02T22:50:49Z")
I would also gladly accept any informational texts not from the show, but similar. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129/3 "2013-02-02T22:59:26Z")
An out-there suggestion, but David Mitchell is on Twitter. You could try contacting him directly if all else fails. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129/4 "2013-02-02T23:19:56Z")
Do you realize that (apparently) all the episodes are on YouTube? You can copy them down yourself if you want to. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129/5 "2013-02-03T00:43:43Z")
As the point of the game is for the contestants to make up the articles themselves, I think transcripts are missing the point. You come up with a subject that has five interesting but unusual facts, you give them to your “contestant” and they have to write some article strewn with nonsense, but with the aforementioned facts cunningly hidden in amongst them, and huzzah. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129/6 "2013-02-03T14:05:02Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > As the point of the game is for the contestants to make up the articles themselves, I think transcripts are missing the point. I see what you’re saying, but I do have to say that I’m skeptical that the people on the show do their own writing. It’s implied, but carefully never stated. Perhaps some of them, do, but I’d be willing to bet there are some writers on the payroll. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129/7 "2013-02-03T23:40:13Z")
They’re all comedians. They write their own material all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anywhere-i-can-get-a-copy-of-the-unbelievable-truth-informational-texts/649129/8 "2013-02-04T10:50:20Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] They write their own material all the time. [/QUOTE] [Henning Wehn]It’s all written by Jesus[/Henning Wehn]