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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

The News Quiz - 21st October

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.213.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week’s news.

Transcript

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0:45.9

Hello, I have in my hand my script for this week's news quiz. Into the shredder.

1:00.6

There were some really, really nice jokes in there, like this bit about how losing one of

1:06.5

your three most senior cabinet colleagues inside 50 days of taking office might look unfortunate,

1:11.0

but losing two looks like carelessness. In the shredder, a very amusing illustrated comic

1:17.6

strip about Liz Truss fighting off an alien invasion with her bare hands. And a lettuce.

1:29.7

That lettuce was a worthy winner. Anyway, on with the news quiz.

1:35.5

Hello, I am Mandy Zoltzmann. Let me first profoundly thank these. Soon to be former Prime Minister

1:42.3

for learning from how inconvenient it was when she sacked her Chancellor on a Friday by

1:46.6

resigning on a Thursday before we recorded this show. See, it is possible to learn from

1:53.1

our mistakes. This week using the Magic of the Internet, we have a global panel who

1:57.2

we were hoping would be able to shed some light on what else is going on in the world,

2:01.2

because we thought, you know, end of October, quite a week party conference finished. Nothing

2:05.0

major usually going on in the UK. Instead, they're here to reflect on how the world is viewing

2:09.6

chaos UK to help give us an outside perspective on our current political rumpel still skinnery.

2:15.0

So please welcome a representing France and the continent of Europe, its Celia A.B.

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