The News Quiz - 28th June

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Geoff Norcott, Stuart Mitchell, Daliso Chaponda and Katy Balls join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news.

With just one week to go before the UK heads to the polls, Andy and the Panel analyse the final head-to-head debate, discuss the pitfalls of workplace betting, and finally bring a voice to the political elephants in the room.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Toussaint Douglass, Mark Granger, Angela Channell, & Pete Tellouche Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinators: Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Rich Evans

A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production

Transcript

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0:00.0	Order in the co-op, Stacey Dooley, you may address the jury.
0:05.0	I call your attention to the brand new podcast famously on trial.
0:10.0	Celebrity scandals will be scrutinised, a list antics analyzed and influencer indictments
0:16.8	investigated. No case is off limits. Stacey Dooley will present the
0:21.6	evidence. Larry Dean will be the judge.
0:23.9	And I declare this podcast guilty of sounding criminally brilliant.
0:27.8	Famously on trial.
0:29.5	Listen on BBC sounds.
0:31.5	I arrest my case.
0:35.4	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:39.2	Hello, I'm Andy's Altman.
0:40.8	Welcome to the news quiz. Hello in a week dominated by heated discussions about the unnecessarily joyless negativity with which this campaign is
0:54.5	being conducted, a general sense of national decline, tedious stalemates, public dissatisfaction
0:59.4	with how things are going and squabbling's over who is best for the number 10 role, we're actually going to switch focus on the news quiz, away from the football and on to politics.
1:07.0	Our teams this week, well Tom Cruz has been in London recently, just a short visit.
1:13.3	So in honor of his films and paying tribute to A, the State of the Conservative Party
1:19.4	and to B, the enthusiasm of the British voting public at the prospect of a Labour victory in next
1:23.6	Thursday's election we have Team Mission Impossible Fall Out versus Team Board on the 4th of July.
1:29.5	On Team Fall Out we have Stuart Mitchell and Lisa Chuponder.
1:34.0	And on team board we have Jeff Norkot and the political editor of the spectator Katie
1:42.0	Balls.
1:42.6	Stuart and Delisa can have first go at our first question.
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