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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

The News Quiz - 16th September

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.213.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week’s news.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.6

Hello and welcome to a special edition of the News Quiz at the end of a week of morning,

0:09.1

contemplation and tribute after the death of the Queen.

0:12.4

As we record, we are still within the national period of morning and the Queen is lying

0:15.6

in state in Westminster Hall, so this will be a rather different show to regular news

0:19.9

quizzes as we reflect on the last week and the last 70 years as well as looking at some

0:24.2

of the other news from the UK and the rest of the known universe.

0:28.0

I am Andy Zoltzman and I'm joined by Aisha Hazareka, Zoe Lyons, Lucy Porter and Steve

0:33.0

Punt.

0:34.0

And now whatever your views are the monarchy and its role in this nation's past, present

0:40.8

and future, this has been an emotional and historic week as we come to terms in our many

0:44.8

different ways with the death of the woman who's been the figurehead of this country for

0:48.4

more than 70 years.

0:50.5

So tell us your thoughts during this strange week, Lucy, how's it been for you?

0:55.3

Well, I've been moved because my mum, she loved the Queen so much, she was born just a few

1:00.5

years after the Queen and I think she always felt like they'd been through life together

1:05.1

and I think for a lot of people in that generation she had that sort of feeling like they'd

1:08.3

lived their lives in parallel even though they've been very different worlds, very much the

1:12.0

way I feel about Kylie Minogue.

1:15.5

Kylie probably doesn't know me but I always respect her and take an interest in her work.

1:22.3

So it's been a week because we have loads of royal memorabilia at home because my mum,

1:26.6

when she died, we got all the memorabilia so we have got more tea towels with the royal

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