News Quiz 22nd October 2021

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the last of the current series, Andy Zaltzman and the panel take on the week's headlines. Ayesha Hazarika, Matt Winning, Geoff Norcott and Elis James join Andy in 'convivial, fraternal spirit' to look take a close look at COP26, and whether Brian Cox is right about earth's extinction leaving the galaxy bereft of meaning. They also discuss Southend's newly-minted city status, online anonymity and Sajid Javid's winter plan. The chair's script is written by Andy Zaltzman, with additional material by Alice Fraser, Mike Shephard, Hannah Platt and Rajiv Karia. Producer: Gwyn Rhys Davies Production Co-ordinator: Katie Baum Sound Editor: Marc Willcox A BBC Studios Production.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Before we start, a warning that if you are listening to this episode of the news quiz 100 years from now,
0:11.0	it's made contained things with which you are almost certainly unfamiliar.
0:15.0	These may include ice caps, winter, civilised debate, wallresses, hope, central heating, radio and laughter.
0:25.0	LAUGHTER
0:28.0	That's that. That's the kind of sound people make when they are seeing the lightest side of it.
0:34.0	OK, you wouldn't get it.
0:36.0	Hello to those of us listening in the present and welcome to the news quiz.
0:46.0	I am Andy Zoltzmann.
0:49.0	Welcome to the first news quiz since the BBC unveiled its new logo.
0:56.0	Yes.
0:57.0	Did any of you notice that this...
0:59.0	No.
1:01.0	We will also be using the new BBC audio branding that came with it on the news quiz,
1:06.0	or as I should now call it the news quiz.
1:10.0	Almost exactly the same, but crucially slightly more modern.
1:14.0	Someone said it's more modern, so it must be what could be more modern than that.
1:21.0	And just looking at our audience figures in the crucial 0 to 25 age group,
1:25.0	we are up by 12,000 per cent since the start of this sentence.
1:30.0	Amazing what these little changes can do to your audience demographic.
1:35.0	Our teams this week, we have team Plan B against team Plan Not To Be.
1:40.0	On Team Plan B, we have Aisha Hazareka and Ellis James.
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