The News Quiz - 2nd February
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Andy Zaltzman quizzes the news. Providing all the answers are Simon Evans, Ria Lina, Alasdair Beckett-King, and Anushka Asthana.
In this episode Andy and the panel will be discussing if Power-Sharing will prove to be Power-Caring, and whether anyone anywhere has ever thought of googling "Is it possible to back up WhatsApp messages?”
Written by Andy Zaltzman
With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Alice Fraser, Jade Gebbie, and Adam Greene.
Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Marc Willcox
A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? |
| 0:06.0 | Anonymity is our most valuable gift. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self. |
| 0:16.0 | Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer. |
| 0:20.0 | Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B. |
| 0:24.1 | I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things. |
| 0:30.0 | Young again, with me, Kirstie Young. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, before we start this week's news quiz, I'm just having my good friend Elon Musk implant a microchip into my brain. |
| 0:47.0 | Thanks to Muskky's revolutionary new brain chip, I can now get all the news in the world |
| 0:57.6 | pumped directly into my frontal cortex. |
| 1:00.1 | Appear in leader, have a government milder air. |
| 1:01.9 | Let's go... Ahh, ahh, oh, they think who's a secret agent. |
| 1:07.0 | The third world water is coming soon. |
| 1:09.0 | Should Lawrence Fox hunting be legalised? |
| 1:11.0 | I'll... |
| 1:12.0 | I'll make it stop the theme tune while I scoop this out with a spoon. |
| 1:16.0 | Welcome to the news quiz. |
| 1:21.0 | I am Andy's ultimate just back from Washington, D from Washington DC where I had to testify to a US |
| 1:25.2 | Senate hearing about the impact that topical radio quiz shows can |
| 1:28.0 | have on transport ministers. |
| 1:31.6 | Our teams this week in a week in which we've heard a lot about |
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