News Quiz 1st October 2021

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Porter, Angela Barnes, Alun Cochrane and Matt Forde join host Andy Zaltzman to chew over the week's news. On the menu this week: the fuel crisis, Labour conference, end of the furlough scheme, Amazon's new house robot and the new Bond film. The chair's script is written by Andy Zaltzman, with additional material by Alice Fraser, Max Davis, Tasha Dhanraj and Heidi Regan. It was produced by Sam Michell for BBC Studios.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello. Look, there's no easy way to say this,
0:07.3	but we have heard increasing rumours
0:09.0	that a complete national sense of humour failure is now imminent.
0:13.1	So if you could panic laugh as much as possible
0:16.0	over the next 20 years,
0:18.3	it would be very great to have all this additional...
0:20.5	The news quiz!
0:21.9	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:26.9	Thank you, I am Andy's ultimate.
0:28.6	And seriously, I meant that this is a genuine concern.
0:31.2	There's almost no laugh to left in the United Kingdom whatsoever.
0:35.5	Please, and that just proves it.
0:37.4	Please, however...
0:38.9	LAUGHTER
0:41.0	..do not laugh into a Jerry Cannell milk carton
0:43.4	or have a fist fight over who gets a laugh first.
0:45.4	We have to maintain some vague standards of civilisation.
0:48.6	This week's teams, we have team panic stations
0:51.3	against team stationary panic.
0:53.5	On team panic stations, we have Matt Ford and Alan Cochran.
0:57.0	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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