History Series / WouldILieToYou

* '''Home Truths''': The guests take it in turn to read out a statement about themselves from a card that they've never seen before -- either something true, or a lie made up by the programme researchers. The opposing team may then interrogate them. Once the team think they've heard enough, or the host decides that they've heard enough, the team can then vote on whether it's true or not, with their captain having the deciding vote. If they guess "Truth" or "Lie" correctly, they get a point; if they guess incorrectly, the other team get a point.

* AbandonedCatchphrase: In his first series or so as host, after a panellist had read out an extremely unlikely sounding statement Rob would remark to the other team [[SarcasmMode "this shouldn't take long"]]. This was dropped, possibly because most of the times it appeared the story under discussion turned out to be true.

---> '''Henning''': If you go to the seaside you're not having a curry, you're having fish & chips aren't you. What sort of a stag do goes all the way to Newquay then says, "You know what I really fancy now. Some naan bread".
---> '''David Mitchell''': I must say, if that's the part which you think is the chink in my armour...that a stag do wouldn't have a curry at the seaside, then I reckon I'm doing alright.

** The television screens set into both teams' desks (denoted by the raised pieces of metal in front of each team captain) that were used to play in the clips for the "celebrity facts" rounds in the early series remained there even though none of those rounds were still being played by Series 5. They were removed out of necessity in Series 14, since that series used a COVID-safe redesigned set with each panellist at their own desk.

** In the first few series (especially the first) the Quick-Fire Lies round featured less questioning time and more turns, but in later series it is much more similar to Home Truths, with the only difference being that sometimes the team captains get turns (especially noticeable since the two celebrity trivia rounds have been dropped, meaning the only other round in the show at all is "This Is My..."). Sometimes the final round will only have enough time for ''one'' story, but the name remains.

-->[''Lee has claimed he and the Mystery Guest had been camping and had discovered their tent was stolen in the night'']
-->'''Rhod Gilbert''': Did this tent not have a built-in ground sheet?
-->'''Lee''': No it did not, because otherwise it would have been "This is Steve and we were once kidnapped."

-->'''Miranda Hart''': [''having been asked if her childhood friend made of toast had been buttered''] No. That would be ''stupid'', David.

-->'''Rob:''' "I don't see why you'd tell it if it wasn't true"?! Andy, I really think you've been missing something this evening.

-->[''Lee is claiming that he and the mystery guest were in the Scouts together'']
-->'''David''': You were 12 or 13, how old was Steve?
-->'''Lee''': Steve was... [''He looks at Steve, who is clearly much younger than him''] he was... he was... [''long hesitation''] He wasn't born...

** Lampshaded on one occasion when Lee, [[BlatantLies claiming to have devised his own phonetic alphabet based on things he can see out of his window]] and having repeatedly insisted that he used 'hospital' for 'H', when asked to spell 'hospital' phonetically began spelling it with ''a different H word'':
--> '''Lee:''' Even though I say so myself, that was a ''bad'' mistake.

-->'''Lee''': This is the coconut that nearly killed me.
-->'''David''': Where were you?
-->'''Lee''': Under a coconut tree, where d'you think?

-->'''Lee''': I have hidden in a cupboard to escape Anthea Turner.
-->'''David''': Where were you when this happened?
-->'''Lee/Jimmy''': In the cupboard.
-->'''David''': Where was the cupboard?
-->'''Lee''': In the room I was hiding from Anthea Turner.
-->'''David''': Where was the room?
-->'''Lee''': Just away from Anthea Turner.
-->'''David''': What was the occasion? And do ''not'' define the occasion, or the geographical space in relation to Anthea Turner!

-->'''Lee:''' I've got a certain image to the public, very working class and down-to-earth. Could you change that to Asda or Lidl?\\

-->[''Lee is claiming that he commemorates the death of his goldfish by annually pouring a shot of brandy into his pond'']
-->'''Creator/BernardCribbins''': Was the goldfish in the pond when it died?
-->'''Lee''': No.
-->'''David''': Sorry, the goldfish was not a pond goldfish, it was a bowl goldfish, or a tank goldfish?
-->'''Lee''': No, it was a tree goldfish, actually...
-->'''David''': Where did he live?
-->'''Lee''': The goldfish lived in a bowl. The goldfish bowl!
-->'''David''' [''shouting'']: '''''If the goldfish lived in a bowl'''''--
-->'''Lee''': CORRECT!
-->'''David''': --'''''Why do you commemorate its death by pouring brandy into an ALTERNATIVE goldfish habitat?!'''''

-->'''Lee''': Oh! They're saying to ''you'' that ''this'' is a bad idea? How d'you think ''I'' feel?! What, you mean the same people who said "pretend that you stole a child's bike and went to a petrol station"? ''[[HypocriticalHumor And they're saying]] ''[[HypocriticalHumor I'M]]'' [[HypocriticalHumor the one with the bad idea]]''?!\\

--> '''Russell Howard''': This is Chris and Gill; I interviewed them on my radio show because they claimed that they were abducted by aliens.
--> '''Michael Buerk''': This is Chris and Gill, who are fellow members of the Guildford walking and dining club.
--> '''Lee Mack''': This is Chris and Gill; they once helped me dispose of a dead body after I killed a man in a car park. ''(audience laughter)'' Not really, just trying to add a bit of spice to proceedings.

-->(''after David's "possession" turn -- a rejection letter from [=McDonald's=] -- has been shown to be a lie'')
-->'''Rob''': It's a lie. Because David has never even ''been'' to [=McDonald's=], although he was--
-->'''David''': Of course I've been to [=McDonald's=].
-->'''Lee''' (''sourly''): The next joke is (''mimicking Rob'') "He went to visit Lee".
-->(''the actual joke was something tame about the "new [=McPheasant=] Zinger"'')

-->[''David's "Possession" claim of a travel dressing gown that he takes on every holiday has been shown to be true'']
-->'''John Bishop''': You are ''never'' going to get away from that now! Everyone who sees this show will look at you and see that!
-->'''David''': Basically, my entire image has been destroyed by this show. I was like a cool guy who was into music and modern art before this show, before all the stuff about dressing as an 18th-century nobleman and having a little bell came out. The travel dressing gown's just the tip of the iceberg!

-->'''David''': Yes, and it's always true! It was true about the masks in Castle Douglas, it was true about being able to tear an apple apart with his bare hands, and it was true about the game in the garden!
** This carried on to his seventh appearance:
-->'''David:''' I think it's fair to say that if anyone ''else'' had made this... Allegation [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext about Chris Rea and an egg in their bath]], we wouldn't be giving it a moment's deliberation, but ''somehow'', coming from Bob, it ''might'' be true.

-->'''Fern Britton''': Where did the name come from?
-->'''Reginald D Hunter''': Well, "Reginald" is a German name that means "mighty warrior", and "delicious" means "very tasty".

-->'''Jack Dee:''' The problem we have here is that not all of you are telling the truth.

--> '''David:''' I think it's fair to say that if anyone else had made this... allegation about Chris Rea and an egg in their bath, we wouldn't be giving it a moment's deliberation, but somehow, coming from Bob, it might be true.

-->'''Rob Brydon''': I would remind you that Bernard has traveled in the TARDIS, so if anyone has knowledge of odd things going on... I mean, he's literally traveled in time and relative dimensions in space.

-->[''Lee is claiming that when he was 18, he bet £500 that he would live to the age of 100'']
-->'''Ruth Jones:''' Where did you get £500 from?
-->'''Lee:''' I inherited it from my grandad, who reached the age of 100. I thought it would be an appropriate thing to do.
-->'''David Mitchell:''' Your grandad was 100 before you were 18?

--> [''Patrick Kielty's story about punching Muhammad Ali by accident has been proven true'']

-->''(towards the end of the round...)''
-->'''Creator/OliviaColman:''' What's her surname?
-->'''Eamonn Holmes:''' Kemp.
-->'''Peter Serafinowicz:''' Hugh, what's her surname?
-->'''Hugh Dennis:''' Robertson.
-->'''David Mitchell:''' Lee... don't bother.

--> '''David:''' You were ''seeking out'' people beginning with these letters! What was it about the island of Bermuda?
--> '''Lee:''' Because all my ex-girlfriends went missing.

-->'''Lee:''' Even if I say so myself, that was a ''bad'' mistake.

--> '''Lee:''' To be fair, he does have the haircut of someone who's just ridden a bike.
--> '''Danny:''' Yes. Backwards. Through a hedge. [[CallBack On the Moon.]] ''(Earlier, Sir Chris Hoy claimed he'd been approached by NASA to be the first man to ride a bike on the moon.)''

--> ''[Rob has just read out a Ring of Truth that [[Series/DealOrNoDeal Noel Edmonds]] has a pet chef prepare a three-course meal for his cat once a week.]''\\

-->'''David:''' Even though, Lee, you have said on television that you want my marriage to fall apart, I still find you an adequate colleague.

-->'''David Mitchell''': This wasn't an imaginary friend. This was a friend that just happened to be made out of a piece of toast.

--> '''David''': A-HA-HA-HA! A-HA-HA-HA! ''I am SO MERRY!''

-->'''Lee''': That's a bloody solicitors'!\\

--> '''David:''' Why would a new Year's Eve show need a unicorn statue?
--> '''Julian:''' Well, it ''was'' the nineties.

--> '''David:''' One of the codes by which I live my life is that my appearance should be in no way noteworthy, but then again, not so unnoteworthy as to be in itself noteworthy. [[note]]A gray necktie would count as the latter, according to him.[[/note]]

-->'''Rob Brydon:''' Bernard [Cribbins] and his wife have an agreement. He doesn't steal her cars and she doesn't mention ''[[Film/CarryOn Carry On Columbus]]''.

--> '''Rob:''' (to Adil) Can I just ask you, did you like the look of the university, did it appeal to you-
--> '''Lee:''' '''''THERE'S! [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!]] UNIVERSITY!!!'''''

--> '''Jack Whitehall''': Did you have any relationship with him? Did you converse with him, or was it just reading?
--> '''David Mitchell''': You can't converse with him! He's in the bear's world! He's totally junior to the bear; you can't jump out of the book that is your life and talk to the person reading it, can you?
--> '''Jack''': You can't say "why is this happening, bear?"?
--> '''David''': No! Otherwise the bear's just gonna go "and then "why is this happening, bear?" said Frankie Boyle for some reason". The little bears say "I don't like this part of the story". "Yeah, I'll stop reading it shall I? "No no no!" screamed Frankie Boyle, "don't stop reading this story, or it is the end of my life!" "No, this is definitely not suitable for little bears." ''[mimes closing a book]''

-->'''Shaun:''' What were your stools like?\\

-->'''Lee''' [''after David's team have ruled out his story about the guest being a member of his scout group with whom he went camping and awoke to discover their tent had been stolen, and are deliberating between the two other stories'']: [[SarcasmMode Am I not getting a look in?]]\\

-->'''David''': This is Mark, and he saved me from choking in Argos--
-->[''Everybody laughs'']
-->'''Lee''': David, you've never even ''heard'' of Argos!
-->'''David''' -- He saved me from choking in Argos when I swallowed one of their little pens.
-->[''More laughter'']
-->'''David''': I would like to know ''precisely'' what is implausible about ''that''?

--->'''Josh Widdicombe''': John looks ''gutted'' that you've forgotten.
--->'''Lee''': Of course he's gutted, he was almost in The Beatles!

-->'''David:''' So Lee Mack was in a Waitrose, having a pheasant wrap...

--> '''Lee:''' For the last sic months, I've been secretly liasing with David's wife behind his back.

--> '''Professor Brian Cox''': They're called superconducting cables because, um, if you cool them down to about 1.9 Kelvin -- it's 1.9 degrees above absolute zero--
-->'''Stephen Mangan''': That's my favorite temperature...
-->'''Brian''': --they become superconductors and they have no electrical resistance and carry currents of up to 13,000 amps in wires with a very small cross section...
-->'''David Mitchell''': So, in layman's terms--
-->'''Stephen''': A wire, a wire.
-->'''David''': --is it a wire? Did you get yoghurt on a wire?
-->'''Brian''': It's a niobium tungsten alloy...
-->'''David''': I'm not saying it's not a ''brilliant'' wire!

--> '''Lee:''' What was the occasion?
--> '''Jamelia:''' I don't know. It was a party. What do you have parties for?
--> '''Lee:''' You can have parties for all sorts of reasons.
--> '''Jamelia:''' Well, it was one of those reasons.
--> '''Lee:''' Oh, all right, then.

--> ''[Fern Britton has claimed that the special guest is her morris dancing partner]''
--> '''Lee:''' Are you good at morris dancing? [''beat''] You know where this is going, right?
--> '''Fern''': ...I would feel silly.
--> '''Lee''': Well, you're on the right show...

-->'''Rhod Gilbert''': It has to be a lie, David, or else there's ''something wrong with him''.

--> '''Claudia''': I don't think any of them have met him.
--> '''Lee''': Yeah, it turns out to be Angus' nephew; is that what you're saying?

--> '''Rob:''' Well, that is the age at which you'd start tossing, and... No, no
--> '''Rob:''' When you wake from a night having had this dream, do you awake fulfilled? Are a a better... that's not what I meant and you ''know'' that's not what I meant.

-->'''Susan Calman:''' ''[In response to story that David O'Doherty makes leg warmers for swans]'' I think it's true.\\

-->'''Dion Dublin:''' It's that bizarre, only Bob can make it up. So, I think that's true.

-->'''Lee''': (''evaluating one of David's less-plausible stories about him writing horoscopes for a women's magazine'') Why did they think that you were the man to do this job?
-->'''David''': Well, a friend of mine--
-->'''Lee''': Lying.
-->'''David''': All right.

--> '''Angus:''' Every year, worldwide, some 3,000 people are killed by falling coconuts, now if you times that figure by 10, that's 30,000 people every year, which works out at nearly half a million people, every 12 months. Spread that out over a year, that's 4.2 billion people killed by coconuts every month. A ''frightening'' statistic.

* BiggusDickus: "That's just a ''salad'' fork!"

--> ''[Rob has just read out a Ring of Truth that [[Series/DealOrNoDeal Noel Edmonds]] has a pet chef prepare a three-course meal for his cat once a week.]''
--> '''David''': What are the courses?
--> '''Lee''': Veal or no veal? ''[Audience groans]'' I'm actually ashamed of myself.
--> '''Julian Clary''': If it gets run over it's "Wheel or no wheel"
--> '''Rob''': If the cat was a fishing enthusiast--
--> '''David''': Shut up!

** In Series 15, former Music/BucksFizz singer Cheryl Baker was the "This is My" celebrity guest (entering to a snippet of their 1981 single "Making Your Mind Up"[[note]] Which notably led the UK to victory in the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest.[[/note]]), and Lou Sanders claimed that when she had worked in a clothes shop as a teenager, she had to help Cheryl out of a stuck zip by ripping off her skirt (in imitation of a dance move used by Bucks Fizz). Sarah Millican asked if Cheryl asked for Lou's help, leading to a pun on the band's name from Lee:
--->'''Lou Sanders:''' No, she was quite... can I say the word "bubbly"?\\
'''Lee:''' Well, it's Bucks ''Fizz'', why not?

* IncrediblyLamePun: Probably lots of examples, but for starters...
-->(''during a This Is My round, Jo Brand's [[spoiler:true]] story is that she dropped Liz in a pond when she was a baby'')
-->'''Lee''': Who went into the water, to get Liz out?
-->'''Jo''': My brother Bill.
-->'''Lee''': Because he had the right beak shape?
** "Part of the problem is that the wheels on a post office bike are larger than normal -- that's according to a spokesperson." Rob Brydon earned a CollectiveGroan for that one.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Following Lee's utterly unbelievable story about receiving a full-body search at Miami Airport for making a joke about Ronald Reagan, David's team began yelling "Lie! Liar!" at him. Vic Reeves ended up shouting "Flog him!"

-->'''David:''' That's I would say, a disproportionate response.

-->'''Henning:''' Well, I suppose a friend of his left them there

* DramaticPause: panellists may leave this between the opposing team reaching a decision on their statement and their revealing the truth.
** Inevitably lampshaded:

* Website/EBay: Sometimes a panellist will claim a "Possession" in the Quick Fire Lies round was an ill-considered eBay purchase.
** David Mitchell introduced one 'This Is My' guest as the man who sold him ten packs of rechargeable batteries via eBay, and accidentally sent him a hundred packs.

-->'''Lee''': This joke about me being really thick isn't working out with you not being able to read, is it?
** In one episode, Lee claims that a misshapen and poorly-produced plastic keyring is the only thing he was able to produce after a year spent in a "plastic works" class. When asking him how he did it, Lorraine Kelly does an exaggerated cutting motion which Lee instantly mocks. Dara O'Briain then instantly points out that if Lee's claim is true, he's hardly in a position to get haughty about someone else's plastic-cutting techniques or abilities.
** Raised when Lee -- faced with trying to prove the claim that he once rode a little girl's bike three miles to a nearby service station when his car ran out of petrol -- jokingly tries to do a wheelie to the end of the stage on the bike in question. When the producers warn him (via Rob) that this is not a very good idea, Lee in frustration yells that it's a bit rich for the people who came up with the [[BlatantLies clearly ridiculous claim]] that he's been trying to prove to start chiding others for not having very good ideas.

* IAmSpartacus: "''I'm'' posh and a little bit gay!"

-->'''Rob:''' Oh no, no, no, I am Spartacus.

* {{Irony}}: The very fact that Kelvin Mackenzie was on a show called ''Would I Lie to You?'' at all.

-->'''Mark Watson''': We're trying to decide, basically, if the esteemed actor and voiceover artist Bernard Cribbins is a gambler, a liar and a borderline crook, essentially.
-->'''David Mitchell''': It is not illegal to lie to your wife!

-->'''Jack:''' Was it just the voice, or for the next three days did you not eat lettuce and loathe the English as well?
-->'''Armando Iannucci:''' Some of us do eat lettuce.

-->'''Janet''': [''having stormed across the stage during the This Is My round to confront David's team''] If you met Daniel Craig, could you speak?
-->'''Davina [=McCall=]''': No. She's right.

-->'''David Mitchell:''' Oh yes, let's be factually inaccurate, shall we? Because that never causes ''any'' problems. As you enter the ninth hour of your flight.

* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: David Mitchell introduced one This Is My guest as a pet shop owner who sold him a hamster that died the very next day. Ken Livingstone asked him what the hamster died of, and Lee interrupts with "I think we all know, David".

-->'''David''': On a big set like Downton Abbey, with so many high-profile stars like Maggie Smith--
-->'''Jim''': I don't do Maggie, I have to say...
-->'''Rob''': Do you serve her lunch?

-->'''Lee''': So just to absolutely establish -- you're taking out the biscuit, you're discarding it because it's crumbled, if it's not crumbled you tend to throw it away but not always; then you'll slide them out like some sort of magician, on your hand like that, you'll get the jar, you'll insert them in unless it's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks Leibniz]]... whatever the bloody hell they are... they go in, it comes off, there's one left, it's not damaged; give it to the dog that used to be brown but is now black -- is what you're telling us is what's happening in your house. You're mental. 'Course it's true.

-->'''David''': You take the horse back. Guy B, who's the guy you met on the way to the stables, he's gone, no sign of him, so you say to Guy A, "Well, we hired this as part of your 'not actually bothering to go to the stables but getting a few hundred yards away' scheme, we hired this horse for 25 minutes at an extortionate rate, nevertheless, here it is..." And what did he say?
-->'''Kevin''': We went back to the place where we picked up the horse—
-->'''David''': Oh, so not to the stable! But to the random point in the road, a couple of hundred yards away from the stables, thinking bewilderedly - "Where has the mysterious man gone?" I would have thought that logically, when you were returning it, having thought that it had come from the stable, that you'd been lucky not to have to walk to the stable before hiring it, you might nevertheless have thought "Well, the stable's where it's got to go back to", rather than "Well, sod 'em! This is where we picked it up from! I'm not gonna take it to the stable. I'm gonna stand here, 300 yards away from the stable, going COME OVER HERE! COME AND GET YOUR OWN HORSE!" At which point locals start waving-going, "NO! YOU KEEP!"

* MathematiciansAnswer: Often utilized by contestants. For example:

** The dynamic between Lee and David is often presented in this fashion. While they often seemed more 'vitriolic' in the early seasons, it's gradually settled into being more LikeAnOldMarriedCouple between two completely different men who've spent so much time in each other's company they just know way too much about each other.

* WaxingLyrical: Mel Giedroyc's story about licking a piece of cake meant for David Bowie begins "I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar." When it's pointed out that that's not a David Bowie song, she replies "That much is true."
** This was inevitable when [[Music/SpandauBallet Martin Kemp]] showed up as a guest in Series 10; after he revealed his fact as a truth in the obvious style, they even played a clip of the song.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Lee claimed that a chimpanzee once beat him at swingball.

Compare with ''WebVideo/TwoOfThesePeopleAreLying'', a web video series also about players guessing if something is true or a lie.

* {{Corpsing}}: David Mitchell found the claim that he could no longer drink orange squash as it sent him "berserk" ''so'' ridiculous that it took him four attempts to read with a straight face.

** There are television screens set into both teams' desks (denoted by the raised pieces of metal in front of each team captain). These were used to play in the clips for the "Ring of Truth" round, and they're still there even though the round was scrapped after Series 4.
** Rob getting turns in the Quick-Fire Lies round has not appeared since Series 8, but his desk still has the button for revealing whether a fact is true or not.

--->'''Lee:''' This poor child's either left alone in a pool, left alone in a lift, or left alone to be shouted at by Chris! Where are her parents tonight? Nobody knows!

* ConvictionByContradiction: The panel will usually vote "Lie" if they can get the opposing panellist to contradict the details in his/her story.

* OhCrap: When a panellist is confronted with a lie that is completely indefensible, or when a panellist on the other team spots the hole in his/her story which reveals it to be false. Wise panellists will try not to let it show. A player trying to run a bluff may fake a facial reaction. This can also be the reaction if the statement on the card is a particularly embarrassing truth.

** Whenever a story crops up which involves a panellist getting into an embarrassing scrape with a third party, another panellist will often end up jokingly yelling "And he/she's here ''tonight''!" as if the third party's waiting backstage to surprise the panellist.

[[caption-width-right:350:From left: [[BlatantLies Lee Mack, David Mitchell, and Rob Brydon]][[note]]Yes, that was a lie. The correct order is David Mitchell, Rob Brydon and Lee Mack]][[/note]]

-->'''Chris Addison:''' Would you mind [[SherlockHolmes smoking a pipe and solving a crime]]?

* '''Quick-Fire Lies''': Essentially the same as the first round, except against the clock, and the panellists are selected at "random" until time runs out; this time, the team captains may also get some turns. Since the second series, possessions are occasionally thrown in, with the panellist taking an item from a box under the desk and told to claim it as theirs. In series 4 Rob started getting turns as well (with both teams questioning him at once), although this aspect seems to have been dropped in the eighth series.

''Would I Lie to You?'' (begun in 2007) is a British [[PanelGame Panel Show]] based around truth and lies. Essentially, over a series of rounds the panellists (two team captains with two guests each) will read out a series of statements about themselves; the opposing team must figure out whether they are true or not. It is currently on its fourteenth series.

** David Mitchell has had comedy partner Robert Webb and ''Series/PeepShow'' co-stars Olivia Colman and Isy Suttie on the show (notably, Colman's second appearance was ''after'' her career had gone stratospheric and she was being talked about as an Oscar nominee for ''Film/TheFavorite''), and Lee has had Miranda Hart and Katy Wix from ''Not Going Out''.

** David Mitchell has had comedy partner Robert Webb and ''Series/PeepShow'' co-stars Olivia Colman and Isy Suttie on the show, and Lee has had Miranda Hart and Katy Wix from ''Not Going Out''.

** Cricket commentator Henry Blofield's, who is known for his extremely posh voice, story that when he is out and about, and doesn't want to be disturbed, he puts on a "common" accent ran into trouble as soon as he was asked to demonstrate said accent. Firstly, he started off with a Cockney burr that made [[Film/MaryPoppins Dick Van Dyck's]] sound good, then it started to stray around all four corners of the UK, before it eventually settled for somewhere in the West Country. Unsurprisingly, Lee's team didn't believe him.

** Cricket commentator Henry Blofield's, who is known for his extremely posh accent, story that when he is out and about, and doesn't want to be disturbed, he puts on a "common" accent ran into trouble as soon as he was asked to demonstrate said accent. Firstly he put on a Cockney accent that made [[Film/MaryPoppins Dick Van Dyck's]] sound good, then that accent started to stray around all four corners of the UK, before eventually landing somewhere in the West Country. Unsurprisingly Lee's team didn't believe him.

** The very posh Henry Blofield's story that when he out and about, and doesn't want to be disturbed he puts on a "common" accent ran into trouble as soon as he was asked to demonstrate said accent. Firstly he put on a Cockney accent that made Dick Van Dyck's sound good, then that accent started to stray around all four corners of the UK, before eventually landing somewhere in the West Country. Unsurprisingly Lee's team didn't believe him.[[spoiler: They were right not to.]]