Happy Hit: From riverside bench to Windsor Castle
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Meet Jay Flynn, as online pub quizmaster who hosted weekly quizzes, which at their peak attracted 180,000 people, and raised more than £1m for charity. Before he was a quizmaster, Jay spent nearly two years living on a bench on London's Victoria Embankment. Jay talked to BBC Radio Lancashire just before he was made an MBE by Prince William at Windsor Castle.
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