MITCHELL SYMONS was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning column for the Sunday Express . Mitchell has won the Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Awards twice, for Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You and Do Igloos Have Loos?.