The News Quiz - 23rd February

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Doyle, Hugo Rifkind, Lucy Porter and Ria Lina join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the week's news.

This week the panel tackle how a parliamentary debate about peace descended into constitutional conflict, why Donald Trump is actively urging his supporters to put their foot in it, literally this time, and how Britannia nuked the waves.

Strap in.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Cameron Loxdale and Viv May

Producer: James Robinson Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls & Dan Marchini Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.2	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know I also know that comedy is really
0:24.4	subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer
0:29.6	from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:41.6	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:45.0	Hello, I am Andy's Altzman, speaker of the news quiz.
0:49.0	There are certain unwritten conventions attached to this show. We traditionally begin with the theme tune
0:54.4	followed by a series of questions leading to a final score. This week however, as you know, all
0:58.8	conventions have gone in the bin. So I can tell you right now that our winners are Lucy and Andrew.
1:05.0	There are no questions just passive aggressive statements and instead of the theme tune I'm going to
1:09.8	chainsaw this large block of wood into a sculptor of my predecessor Miles Jupp in which he is
1:15.5	naked a strider rhinoceros.
1:17.6	Welcome to the news quiz! Right. All done. All done. Two graphic. Yeah.
1:34.0	Better?
1:38.0	Good, we're good to go.
1:40.0	Our teams this week in a week in which protests came to the House of Commons in a fevered ceasefire debate on Wednesday
1:44.7	We have team Convention Rebellion against team Justop Hoyle
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