Meet Steve Colgan :

Stevyn Colgan is an author, artist, speaker and oddly-spelled Cornishman. He has been a police officer, a chef, a brewer, and, for over a decade he was one of the ‘Elves’ that research and write the popular BBC TV series QI and its sister show, The Museum of Curiosity, for Radio 4. He has given hundreds of talks across the UK and around the world and is a regular at festivals and events such as TED talks, The Ig Nobel Prizes, QEDCon, Hay Festival, Latitude and the Edinburgh Fringe. He also lectures at several UK universities on creativity and problem solving and is the author of eight books including ‘Why Did The Policeman Cross The Road?’, ‘Saving Bletchley Park’ (co-written with Dr Sue Black OBE) and, most recently, his first novel, ‘A Murder To Die For’.