Last year BBC Breakfast launched a puzzle advent calendar in collaboration with GCHQ. It was a huge hit and so they want to follow it up a bi-weekly challenge (probably Monday and Friday) in the Spring, set by a panel of experts/quizzers. They are "are hoping to recruit around a dozen of the best minds in the country to help set these challenges", in this case female minds for gender balance. 

The plan is for contributors (in total) to submit a list of 3-5 puzzles regularly and the presenters will read them out (so no audio required). They are offering a disturbance fee of £75 per puzzle.

Contact Dyrol if you are interested.

Image: Jan Van Eyck - the Arnolfini Portrait (a 15th work whose meaning has puzzled for centuries)

Jan Van Eyck - the Arnolfini Portrait
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