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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

NEWS QUIZ: Climate Change, Brexit and Swedish Trotting

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.213.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Angela Barnes welcomes Helen Lewis, Andy Parsons, Kerry Godliman and Simon Evans.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, I'm Louis Thoreau and I've

0:06.4

got a new podcast on BBC Sounds called Grounded with Louis Thoreau. Stick around after the show

0:12.2

to hear what it's all about.

0:13.6

Hello, I'm Angela Barnes and you're listening to the Friday Night Comedy Podcast. This

0:17.6

week a few tantalising hints have been dropping about when sport might return to our screens.

0:22.5

Now I can only speak for myself here, but I for one can't wait to get back to my Saturday

0:27.1

routine of grabbing a nice cold beer, sitting myself down on the sofa and not watching it.

0:32.9

Bliss.

0:33.9

Until then, here's the news quiz. Enjoy!

0:36.4

Music Radio Podcasts Hello and welcome to another lockdown

0:47.4

edition of the news quiz coming once again from our very own homes. Now we're doing our

0:51.4

best to make things sound as good as possible. For example, I'm recording from a force I've

0:56.0

created out of two king size dovas and some pillows. This of course provides a decent

1:00.3

degree of soundproofing and now we're in week six of lockdown, handily doubles as a padded

1:04.7

cell. So without further ado, we'll start tonight with this cutting from the front page

1:08.9

of the Times, read by Alan Smith.

1:11.2

I want a baby, but I'm single and in lockdown. Free delivery for six weeks.

1:16.6

Thank you to Brian Thorpe for sending that in. Now let's meet the teams. In team A, we

1:20.4

have Helen Lewis and Andy Parsons. Hello.

1:24.0

And in team B, it's Kerry Godlman and Simon Evans. Hello. Hello. How are you all doing?

1:30.4

Kerry, Helen, we saw you a couple of weeks ago. Is things progressing well?

1:34.2

I'm about 10% matter and 10% area. How about you? I think that's the entire population.

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