The News Quiz - 1st March

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hugo Rifkind, Susie McCabe, Ashley Storrie and Stuart Mitchell join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the week's news from Aberdeen.

This week the panel discuss Gordon Brown’s vision for a second renaissance in Aberdeen, why Lee Anderson has lost the Tory whip, and the difference between Mob Rule and Ja Rule.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Rebecca Bain, Alex Garrick-Wright, Krystal Evans, Peter Tellouche and Christina Riggs.

Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinators: Sarah Nicholls & Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox Recorded by Sean Kerwin

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.4	Hello, I'm Andy's Altzman.
0:39.4	We recorded this week's news quiz
0:40.9	before the announcement of the result of the Rochdale by election, won by George Galloway and his faithful
0:46.2	hat.
0:47.2	It took place on the 29th of February, so according to Leep Day tradition, Galloway
0:51.4	will now serve a 20-year term as MP.
0:54.4	More on this next week and over the next 20 years.
1:00.0	Welcome to the news quiz.
1:01.1	This week we are in Aberdeen.
1:03.0	Our team this week in honor of the two rather caricaturish men who've been making the news either side of Hadrian's wall this week,
1:15.2	Raul Dahl's famous chocolatier and the former chair of the Conservative Party,
1:19.2	we have Team Wonka against Team Plonka.
1:21.8	On Team Wonka we have Susie McCabe and Stuart Mitchell.
1:26.0	And on Team Plonka, Hugo Rifkin and Ashley Story. Now, Democracy needs all the help it can get at the moment, so we'll let our audience
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