The News Quiz - 14th June
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Lucy Porter, Alasdair Beckett-King, Athena Kugblenu and Hugo Rifkind join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news.
This week and the General Election gets closer still, Andy and the Panel will be mulling over the manifestos, inspecting political interviews, and spotlight scandals in the world of competitive eating.
Written by Andy Zaltzman
With additional material by: Christina Riggs, Meryl O'Rourke, Mike Shephard, Herries Anderton & Pete Tellouche Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Marc Willcox
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Garrelinika here with Alan Shearer and Mike Wicherichs to say the |
| 0:05.2 | match of the day top 10 podcast is back. We'll be ranking our footballing |
| 0:09.8 | top 10s and debaitin who is right. We've got quite a good list obviously there's an |
| 0:14.8 | exception. It's the top 10 euros golden boot winners. Now we're talking |
| 0:20.1 | that's all right. You're not going wrong. Really? |
| 0:23.4 | Definitely not. Oh, thanks. |
| 0:26.0 | Mash is a top 10. Listen only on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Sorry, I am on a call. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, Andy's Altzman. |
| 0:43.4 | I would like to place a bet. |
| 0:45.8 | On the 70th word I say on this week's news quiz being porcupine. Yes including these words. No it has |
| 0:59.4 | never been the 70th word of the news quiz before. 100 pounds. A thousand to one? Deal. Of course I do not have |
| 1:09.4 | any inside information on what will be in the porcupine. |
| 1:13.0 | Get in, ka ching! |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome to the newly omniscient news quiz. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello. Hi, I'm Andy's ultimate and I'm well aware that I have a ridiculous job but I have to say |
| 1:27.6 | I've never felt more like a cabinet minister than I have this past week in that I too have come to the realization that whatever I say and do |
| 1:35.6 | will have absolutely no impact on the election result on the 4th of July. |
| 1:39.0 | Anyway, I sincerely hope both of our teams will at least pretend they can win rather than |
| 1:43.2 | this begging me to let them lose by a dignified margin. |
| 1:46.4 | And our teams this week and a week in which the Conservatives all but admitted defeat and |
| 1:50.1 | Kair Starmel was accused of being a political robot, we have team out of office against team |
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