Best of The News Quiz 2025

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

3.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A satirical smorgasbord of The News Quiz's best bits of the year, covering local elections, flag fever, Starmer's struggles, Trump's travails, and a very special meeting between King Charles and Pope Leo XIV.

To hear more episodes of The News Quiz, search "Friday Night Comedy" on BBC Sounds.

Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman.

Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu

A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.2	Music, radio, podcasts
0:04.5	And BBC Sounds
0:08.7	Football from Five Live
0:10.9	Join the Five Live sport team
0:15.2	for exclusive commentaries
0:16.8	from the Premier League,
0:17.9	FA Cup and Champions League
0:19.5	Chance to shoot!
0:23.2	And stay on top of everything football every day
0:26.1	with the Football Daily podcast.
0:28.0	I think you've got to earn the right to play the way that you want to play.
0:31.6	Football from 5 Live.
0:33.7	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:41.0	Hello. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, I am Andy Zaltzman, and this is the official news quiz review of the year for 2025,
0:48.1	a mind-waping, retina-burning, history-shreading, predictably chaotic 12 months of not particularly merry mayhem.
0:55.6	Fair to say that 2025 did not score too highly out of 10 in the calm,
1:00.0	global happiness and mutually respectful dialogue categories,
1:03.6	but it racked up some serious numbers in political disenchantment,
1:07.5	existential panic about AI taking over the planet,
1:10.4	and worldwide use of the phrase,
1:12.4	he's done what now? The news quiz year began with one of British politics most frequently overbaked
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