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• Treasure Quest anniversary

  Celebrating 10 years since Treasure Quest first went on the air in 2008.

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• The end of the journey

  Sophie Little finds the final ever Treasure Quest treasure, in a garden in Hellesdon.

  Duration: 3:59

• Looking back ahead of the final Treasure Quest

  Producer Paul Hayes looks back ahead of the final Treasure Quest this Sunday.

  Duration: 4:13

• "Feed me, Seymour!"

  Julie Reinger hears all about the new production of Little Shop of Horrors in Fakenham.

  Duration: 7:17

• Audio clue

  An audio clue for this week's Treasure Quest! But where does it lead...?

  Duration: 0:15
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• Treasure Quest - Sunday 10th September 2023

• Treasure Quest - Sunday 3rd September 2023

• Treasure Quest - Sunday 27th August 2023

• Treasure Quest - Sunday 20th August 2023
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• About the programme

  Treasure QuestÌýwas first broadcast on ±«Óãtv Radio Norfolk with a pilot on Good Friday, March 21 2008, with a regular weekly run then starting on Sundays at the end of that May. It then ran for 808 episodes until September 10 2023, with a total of 732 quests - the difference in numbers accounted for by 11 two-parters, three "indoor play" shows on days when the weather was too bad to go out, two quests cancelled due to heavy snow when "best of" material was played instead, and 60 "Virtual Quests" during the coronavirus pandemic.

  Altogether, the team experienced 476 wins, 251 losses, and five shows were declared to have been draws.

  The show explored all corners of Norfolk with you as the vital contributor, helping to solve the clues and work out where the radio car should head next.Ìý

  Julie ReingerÌýwas our intrepid clue-hunter out in the radio car each week, with Sophie LittleÌýin charge of the maps back in the studio.Ìý

  Every Sunday morning, we had a series of clues, usually five, hidden in different places around a certain part of the county. Each clue led to where the next one was located, with the final clue leading to the treasure! Our radio car team of Julie and her driver had to battle against the clock to solve the clues and find the treasure before the 12.55pm deadline, but they wouldn’t ever have been able to do it without you phoning and messaging in to crack the clues for them!

• Sophie Little

  Sophie first took part in Treasure Quest in 2013 as a stand in clue-hunter, and quickly became a well-loved member of the team. She alternated the regular clue-hunting role with Kirsteen Thorne in 2014 and 2015, and when Kirsteen left became the full-time clue-hunter. In 2020 she became the studio presenter, in charge of the maps back at base!Ìý

  A Norwich native, she was a familiar voice on ±«Óãtv Radio Norfolk, having been the presenter of our Saturday evening new music programme ±«Óãtv Introducing from 2009 until 2019, and from 2018 until 2023 also had her own Sophie Little ShowÌýon Friday nights. She was also the voice of the travel bulletins in the breakfast show between 2011 and 2014, and stood-in as a presenter on various other shows - and also !Ìý

  Sophie holds a unique position in the history of Treasure Quest, as she’s the only one of our regular 'runners' to have also stood in as Navigator, having driven Julie Reinger around the county for a memorably chaotic quest in September 2014! It was in October 2020 when she switched roles to become the new studio presenter of the show, after David Whiteley left the programme, and remained in that jobÌýuntil Treasure QuestÌýcame to an end in September 2023.

  

• Julie Reinger

  Well known as the weather presenter on ±«Óãtv Look EastÌýfrom 1999, Julie first stood-in as the clue-hunter on Treasure QuestÌýin June 2012. She was then a regular stand-in out-and-about in the radio car until she took over as one of the regular clue-hunters following Becky Betts's departure from the show at Easter 2013.
  
  Julie alternated the clue-hunting role with Kirsteen Thorne until the autumn of 2014. She then left the show for a time, but returned in 2017 as a stand-in. She had two long periods deputising for Sophie Little during Sophie's maternity leaves in 2018 and 2019-20. Julie then returned full-time to the show as the clue-hunter in October 2020, when Sophie switched to become the studio presenter. She and Sophie remained the regular team for the remainder of the show's run, until it ended in September 2023.

  

• Past presenters

  For its first five years, the show was well-known for its double-act of David Clayton in the studio and ‘runner’ Becky Betts, untilÌý.ÌýAfter Becky left, Kirsteen Thorne and Julie Reinger alternated the clue-hunting role week-to-week in 2013 and 2014. Sophie replaced Julie in late 2014, and took over as full-time clue-hunter after Kirsteen decided to step down in September 2015. DavidÌý, after eight years as the studio presenter, when he retired from the ±«Óãtv.
  
  David Whiteley then took over as studio presenter, until he left the ±«Óãtv in October 2020. Sophie then switched across to the presenting role, with Julie Reinger returning to the programme as clue-hunter.
  
  Kirsteen and the two Davids, plus Becky on the phone, all returned for special guest appearances alongside Sophie and Julie in the show's last ever episode in September 2023.