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BBC Children in Need

2021: University Challenge Special

For one night only, Jeremy Paxman hands over the reins to journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Wark, who hosts the proceedings as famous faces from the BBC and ITV compete against each other in separate teams for BBC Children in Need.\n\nRick Edwards leads Team BBC and will be helped by Radio 4’s Mishal Husain, Mock the Week comedian Angela Barnes and impressionist Jon Culshaw from Radio 4’s Dead Ringers.\n\nTeam ITV is led by broadcaster and journalist Kaye Adams and consists of celebrity guests Dr Ranj Singh, comedian Russell Kane and Loose Women’s Denise Welch.\n\nBoth teams will be giving it their all for BBC Children in Need, but who will emerge victorious in this star-studded battle of the brains?

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