In 1976 Muir wrote "The Frank Muir Book: An irreverent companion to social history", which is a collection of anecdotes and quotations collected under various subjects including "Music", "Education", "Literature", "Theatre", "Art" and "Food and Drink". (In the United States, this book is titled "An Irreverent Social History of Almost Everything.") A similar format to "The Frank Muir Book" was used in his BBC radio series "Frank Muir Goes Into...", in which Alfred Marks read the quotations, linked verbally by Muir. He published books based on these series. His "The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose", which again uses a similar format with more scholarly aspirations, was published in 1990.