The News Quiz - 19th January

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman quizzes news from Swansea this week. Providing all the answers are Lucy Porter, Robin Morgan, Tadiwa Mahlunge, and Ayesha Hazarika.

In this episode Andy and the panel have a look at some broken geopolitical New Year's resolutions and how life seemingly both began and is now struggling in Wales.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Cameron Loxdale, and Callum Jones

Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.6	Hi my name's Tommy Dixon and I make podcast for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories
0:09.8	always loved a good book but when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered
0:14.0	podcasts. I was blown away about how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds
0:18.6	could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that
0:22.4	make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to give it a go myself,
0:26.3	which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole new career given other people that exact same feeling.
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0:37.3	away on BBC Sounds.
0:41.1	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:45.0	Welcome to the news quiz.
0:49.0	We're recording in Swansea this week,
0:52.0	so I thought I'd pop up the road to Rossilli Beach, which last year came in the top 50 beaches in the world.
0:59.0	I'm guessing they didn't send the judging panel in mid-January.
1:02.0	I'm really starting to think this was not the day to try a new bikini.
1:07.6	So I might just pop down to Port Talbot to thaw out in front of the blast furnace.
1:11.5	They've done what!
1:13.0	Whilst I thought out and head to the recording,
1:16.0	please enjoy the theme tune for this week's news quiz.
1:18.0	Welcome to the news quiz coming to you this week from Swansea in Wales.
1:27.0	Another time of broad national dissatisfaction across the UK so our two teams this week
1:36.1	are team mumbles against team grumbles.
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