The News Quiz - 5th January
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A look back on some of the best bits of News Quizzing from 2023
In this compilation episode Andy Zaltzman casts his satirical eye over the highs and lows of the year, in which the UK managed to hold of a Prime Minister for more than a year (well done us), The Economy moved about as erratically as a paper plane in a snow storm, and there were some events in the Middle East that made doing a light-hearted topical news show a bit of a challenge at times...
Hosted and written by Andy Zaltzman.
Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman
A BBC Studios Production
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| 0:00.0 | Does talking to strangers make you happier? |
| 0:04.5 | Could aging disgracefully help you live longer? |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and in my Just One Long Thing podcast series, I'll be chatting to doctors and scientists |
| 0:15.1 | we'll be covering topics like sleep exercise happiness and staying young with each of |
| 0:20.9 | our experts choosing a health hack they claim is the single most effective way you can improve your life |
| 0:27.0 | Just one long thing listen first on BBC Sounds |
| 0:34.0 | BBC Sounds BBC Sounds. Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello I am Andy's Altzman and welcome to the year 3024. |
| 0:42.0 | I speak to you from a thousand years. And welcome to the year 3024. |
| 0:42.7 | I speak to you from a thousand years in the future. |
| 0:45.9 | I thought I'd have a little nosy around to see how things pan out. |
| 0:49.0 | And not much to report. |
| 0:50.8 | To be honest, the United Kingdom of course left the planet after a controversial referendum about 993 years ago. |
| 0:57.0 | All that's left is a big hole where the UK used to be, in which by happy chance I found this a wax cylinder recording of the official |
| 1:05.4 | news quiz review of 2023 which I have sent back to be broadcast to you early in |
| 1:11.5 | 2024 just as it originally was. The year all started |
| 1:16.1 | of course as it so often did in those days in January with the current incumbent |
| 1:20.6 | in the number 10 ejector seat, Ritchie Sunak, |
| 1:23.0 | gamely hanging on to power, after a frankly epic two-month endurance shift at the end of 2022. |
| 1:29.0 | And as the New Year squelched into action, Sunak set about trying to at least partially de-disillusion the nation's voters. |
| 1:36.0 | As we approach the end of the first week of the year, who is already on five goals? |
| 1:43.0 | So yeah, I think we know this. |
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