The News Quiz - 22nd January 2021

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Joining Andy this week are Helen Lewis, Olga Koch, Andrew Maxwell and US stand-up, Hari Kondabolu. It's a Biden Inauguration Special for News Quiz this week as Andy and teams reflect on four years of Trumpism and look ahead to the bulging Biden in-tray. There's also time for a mountaineering news round-up and an appearance from a record-breaking French restaurant. Written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material from Simon Alcock, Madeleine Brettingham, Alice Fraser and Suchandrika Chakrabarti. Producer: Richard Morris A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	I, Andrew DeCrickets' Ultraman, do solemnly swear
0:09.0	that I will faithfully execute the Office of Chair of the News Quiz.
0:14.0	So help me. Help help me.
0:18.0	Welcome to the News Quiz.
0:27.0	Thank you. I will now put my copy of the 1982 wisdom down.
0:35.0	And yes, this is the first news quiz of the post,
0:39.0	Mike Pence as Vice President Era.
0:42.0	I am Andy Zoltzman and we start once again with some clippings
0:45.0	from newspapers. This from the New York Times.
0:49.0	Phew! This from the Washington Post.
0:57.0	This from the Los Angeles Times.
0:59.0	Ah!
1:03.0	And from the National Inquirer, Julia Roberts in Alien Asparagus Christ.
1:08.0	So I'm to beat this week's teams.
1:12.0	This week we have Team Start Healing against Team Still Reeling.
1:16.0	On Team Still Reeling we have Andrew Maxwell and Olga Koch.
1:23.0	And on Team Start Healing, Helen Lewis and joining us from New York,
1:27.0	USA, it's Harry Condabolo.
1:30.0	Harry, welcome to the News Quiz. And as an American,
1:36.0	you do score triple points for any questions about British politics
1:40.0	that you get right. So let that inspire you through this show.
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