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 boardgame Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. He is also the author of more than thirty books, and currently writes a weekly column for the Sunday Express . Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You won the Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Award in 2010 and he repeated this success with Do Igloos Have Loos? in 2011.