Congratulations to British Mensa Member Ray Ward who became the 59th ‘Brain of Britain’ yesterday. Ray a semi-retired librarian from London beat three other contestants in BBC Radio Four’s Brain of Britain final. Ray was also a finalist of British Mensa’s own general knowledge tournament Brain of Mensa in 2011.

You can listen to the final until Sunday on the BBC iPlayer and it will be repeated on BBC Radio Four at 11pm on Saturday 10th March.

Brain of Britain programme page