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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

The News Quiz - 20th October

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.213.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news. Providing the answers, hopefully, are Ian Smith, Lucy Porter, Anushka Asthana, and Simon Evans In this episode Andy and the panel discuss the language of war, our crumbling infrastructure, and massive rats! Written by Andy Zaltzman With additional material by Jade Gebbie, Simon Alcock and Cameron Loxdale Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Co-ordinator: Dan Marchini Sound Editor: Marc Willcox A BBC Studios Production

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.

0:04.7

Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests.

0:08.8

Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook.

0:11.2

Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.

0:15.0

It's in the hands of the creator.

0:16.7

It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.

0:20.7

If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're doing the wrong thing.

0:26.0

Julie, at your service, listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:35.0

Welcome to a special edition of the news quiz to mark the 300,000th anniversary of the

0:42.0

birth of our species, Homo sapiens.

0:45.0

Hello, I'm Andy's aldsman and and yes what a historic anniversary.

0:54.4

Pomosapians evolved in Africa 300,000 years ago

0:58.1

meaning that it was on this very day in October

1:01.5

297,997,978 BC that we were launched as one of the range of new species

1:08.3

for that autumn.

1:11.3

I mean I thought that might get a bit of a cheer but that reflects how brand human is having a bit of a tricky time at the moment

1:17.6

But what a day to be doing this show and who more appropriate to have on our panel this week than four fully paid up members of the world's most famous species.

1:24.0

Let's meet our teams, if he teamed as a bit of a loaded word this week after Joe Biden described

1:28.2

Hamas as the other team. Anyway for this historic show in another disappointingly harrowing week for

1:34.5

humanity's remaining fans we've named our teams after sounds that might help

1:37.9

soothe this troubled planet if blasted out from giant speakers floating around the world in a low orbit.

1:45.0

That's got to be worth a go.

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