News Quiz 15th October 2021

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Catherine Bohart, Michael Deacon, Chris McCausland and Eshaan Akbar join host Andy Zaltzman to look back over the week's news. This week, they look at the COVID report's findings, Boris Johnson's holiday hobby, the Northern Ireland Protocol and a sacked wizard. The chair's script is written by Andy Zaltzman, with additional material by Alice Fraser, Catherine Brinkworth, Rhiannon Shaw and Rajiv Karia. Producer: Gwyn Rhys Davies Production Co-ordinator: Katie Baum Sound Editor: Mike Smith A BBC Studios Production.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:05.2	This week's edition of The News Quiz was recorded on Thursday afternoon, before the tragic
0:09.7	killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amos.
0:12.5	I'll thoughts are with his family and his constituency at this sad time.
0:16.8	Hello, following complaints that The News Quiz is not always 100% factual, I have been hooked
0:21.7	up to a special polygraph to prove that I'm not making up these seemingly implausible news
0:25.9	stories.
0:26.9	You will hear a ding if what I say is true and abuzz if it's false.
0:31.7	William Schappner has been blasted into space at the age of 90.
0:35.2	Who do you think it?
0:37.4	England's football fans behaved better than their opponents.
0:47.1	Matt Hancock, yes, that Matt Hancock got a job at the United Nations.
0:55.6	The Queen was wrongly reported to have used a walking stick when it was in fact a pole
0:59.8	for pole vaulting with which she just set a new British record of 5 metres 90.
1:04.4	Yes, it has been an odd week.
1:08.5	Yes, you're right, that's just bog standard news these days.
1:13.5	Welcome to The News Quiz.
1:14.7	I am Andy Zoltson, welcome to The News Quiz.
1:22.8	Our team this week we have team Manifestly Insincere Apology, MIA against team absolutely
1:28.4	without observable leadership team Aewol.
1:30.9	On team MIA we have Chris McCawson and from the Telegraph Michael Deacon.
1:38.5	And on team Aewol it's Catherine Boharts and Ishan Akbar.
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