The News Quiz - 29th September

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news. With him to find the answers to all our problems Andrew Doyle, Athena Kugblenu, Felicity Ward and Hugo Rifkind. This week, Andy and the panel discuss Suella's desire to ditch conventions, Sunak laughing all the way to the Rosebank, and the thrills and spills of the Lib Dem conference. Written by Andy Zaltzman With additional material by Alice Fraser Ben Clover Cody Dahler and Miranda Holms Producer: Gwyn Rhys Davies Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Dan Marchini Sound Editor: Giles Aspen A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.7	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.
0:08.4	I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with a leading journalist, experienced
0:12.2	pundits and the biggest sport stars.
0:14.3	Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the players'
0:18.5	mouths.
0:19.5	But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is our unique access to the sport world.
0:25.0	What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to
0:28.8	dedicated sports fans across the UK.
0:31.0	So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sons where you'll find plenty more.
0:35.2	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:40.0	Hello. Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg launching a range of celebrity AI chatbots this week,
0:45.1	we can now choose a different AI bot host of the news quiz every week.
0:48.9	I fancy you a week off, so we're going to choose from one of the world's leading showbiz
0:53.5	superstars.
0:54.5	And we could have an AI Snoop Dogg, any Kardashian, Beyoncé, the Pope, George Clooney, Lionel
0:59.7	Messi or Matt Hancock.
1:01.7	But I'm going to go for Andy Zoltzman.
1:05.1	Let's see how it flies.
1:07.9	Hello. Welcome to the news quiz.
1:11.3	Oh, that was pretty good.
1:13.0	I'm going to go with it.
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