Funny You Should Ask...AgainEvery Wednesday on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, BBC Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners get to put their questions to the QI Elves. The questions are wonderfully original, often silly and sometimes quirky, and the QI Elves' answers are always fascinating and frequently hilarious. From spiders to stinging nettles, bees to by bands and twins to thermal undies, you'll wonder why these questions hadn't occurred to you before but you'll never forget the

Four strangers are missing

John Lewis-Stempel charts an affectionate history of Woodston Farm - the quintessential English farm

Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son

lonely orphan

watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque

'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold

David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific

sharp-eyed

with Hugh Thomson's classic illustrations and with an afterword by Hugh Pinching

He is as sharp and funny and serious in death as he was in life itself

It is a searingly honest

The ideal gift for early learners