Best of The News Quiz 2024
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A satirical smorgasbord of The News Quiz's best bits of the year. Covering international tensions, a UK General Election, and of course the question on everyone’s lips, what exactly was a ‘Brat Summer’?
With Andy Zaltzman in the chair, full of whimsical animal metaphors and cricket stats, we’ll hear highlights from the crème de la crème of British and international comedy and journalism to dissect the news. It's a chance to return to, and revel in, some of 2024's funniest moments, starring Ian Smith, Lucy Porter, Geoff Norcott, Alasdair Beckett-King, Mark Steel, Ria Lina, Simon Evans and Zoe Lyons, amongst others.
Come digest a dramatic year of news, along with the leftover turkey, as we say goodbye to 2024, goodbye to 14 years or Conservative rule, goodbye to short-lived presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, and goodbye to Earth’s temporary second moon.
Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman
Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman
A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others. |
| 0:05.2 | My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:11.3 | It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here, |
| 0:16.3 | but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world. |
| 0:19.6 | And because the team is such a diverse |
| 0:21.2 | range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through |
| 0:26.0 | archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if |
| 0:31.8 | you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories |
| 0:37.1 | from all around the UK. BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK. |
| 0:40.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:44.3 | Hello, I am Andy Zaltzman and this is the official News Quiz Review of 2024. |
| 1:00.1 | So this frankly substandard decade has just barreled snout first into its halfway point so what better time to look back at the last 12 months, or at least the bits of the last 12 months |
| 1:04.5 | that we've been on air for, which is about half of those 12 months. |
| 1:08.1 | The year began with Britain looking to the horizon and not much liking |
| 1:12.3 | what it saw. A national scandal dating back 25 years was jabbed firmly back into the public eye |
| 1:18.1 | like an unwanted pickled carrot by a public inquiry and much more importantly and effectively |
| 1:23.6 | by a hit TV drama series. |
| 1:26.2 | Our first question goes to Ian and Aisha. |
| 1:28.5 | Which television program has brought a national scandal into the spotlight? |
| 1:34.1 | The telitubbies. |
| 1:35.7 | Right. |
| 1:36.5 | Can you explain? |
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