Jonathan Hancock

Jonathan Bruce Hancock is the Founder of The Junior Memory Championship. A two-time Guinness World Record-Holder and former World Memory Champion, he also spent fifteen years working as a radio presenter on BBC Radio Oxford. He has written eleven books on memory and learning, and is now working as a primary school teacher. He was born in north-east England, on 12 February 1972, but moved at an early age to North Yorkshire where he spent his early... More

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