News Quiz 11th February 2022

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After 5-and-a-half series, 44 episodes and 714 days, The News Quiz welcomes a live studio audience once again. Recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre, this week Andy Zaltzman was joined by Mark Steel, Athena Kugblenu, Hugo Rifkind and Jackie Weaver to look at NHS backlogs, the end of all COVID restrictions in England, a minor reshuffle and a major scientific breakthrough. Hosted by Andy Zaltzman Chairs script by Andy Zaltzman Additional Material from Alice Fraser, Alex Kealy, Eleri Morgan and Rajiv Karia Production Co-ordinator: Katie Baum Sound Editor: Marc Willcox The Producer is Gwyn Rhys Davies, and it is a BBC Studios Production.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.1	Before you get stuck into this episode, I want to tell you about some changes we're
0:09.2	making to where you can find this podcast.
0:11.9	From next month, you can hear Friday Night Comedy 28 days before anyone else, for free
0:17.6	on BBC Sounds.
0:19.2	If you haven't already, you can download the BBC Sounds app to listen to Friday Night
0:23.4	Comedy first.
0:24.7	It's easy.
0:25.7	Once you're there, you'll find even more podcasts available on Sounds before anywhere
0:29.9	else, live BBC Radio and exclusive music mixes.
0:34.4	Just search for Friday Night Comedy, subscribe, and if you want, we'll send you a notification
0:39.8	every time in your episode is ready.
0:41.6	Told you it was easy.
0:43.2	Now, let's get back to the podcast.
0:46.2	This is the news quiz.
0:48.0	And for the first time, since the before times, we are back in front of a live studio audience.
0:53.9	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello, everyone.
1:00.8	It's great to have you all here, so what have you all been up to over the last two years?
1:05.0	LAUGHTER
1:06.5	There you go.
1:07.5	People are unable to provide a simple answer to a simple question.
1:10.7	This country is truly rotting from the top.
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