The News Quiz - 26th January

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the news. Providing all the answers are Lucy Porter, Geoff Norcott, Alasdair Beckett-King, and Cindy Yu.

In this episode Andy and the panel address the issue of BBC bias after upsetting a minister with last week's show, try and figure out exactly what Keir Starmer stands for, and ask the question... who is ready for war?

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Mike Shephard, and Meryl O'Rourke

Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4

Transcript

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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.
0:46.0	Oh, sorry, I've set off the impartiality alarm.
0:50.0	Um, goodbye?
0:52.0	Uh, no, go away. There we go right. Come on, balance, balance, complete lack of bias, that's what BBC stands for.
1:00.0	Welcome to the news quiz. Oh, go and listen to something else.
1:05.0	There we go. I am Andy's Altman.
1:08.0	Oh God. I am Miles Jupp.
1:11.0	I'm Sandy Toxfig. There you go, something for everyone. And we are about
1:16.1	to quiz the news in a week which has yet again seen the Conservative Party make a fool of
1:20.5	itself. There you go.
1:25.0	Welcome to the news quiz.
1:27.0	Thank you.
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