The News Quiz – 6th January

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It’s 2023 and Andy Zaltzman is back with a brand-new series of The News Quiz to start the year. This week Andy is joined by Lucy Porter, Chris McCausland, Samira Ahmed and Scott Bennett. They discuss Rishi Sunak’s newly released ‘five-point plan’, Keir Starmer’s pledge not to open the ‘big government chequebook’ and the surprise appearance of a walrus in Scarborough. Hosted and written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material from Alice Fraser, Mike Shephard, James Farmer, Jennifer Walker and Jade Gebbie. Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Sound Editor: Marc Willcox A BBC Studios Production

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.9	Hi, I'm Helen Lewis, and I want to tell you about a podcast I've made for BBC Radio
0:11.5	Four and BBC Sounds.
0:13.8	It's called the New Gurus, and it's about how every way you look on the Internet, people
0:18.5	are giving advice.
0:20.2	A device they claim will transform your life, advice that gets them thousands, no millions
0:25.2	of devoted followers.
0:27.1	These online profits are telling us how to eat, how to think, how to get rich, how
0:32.6	to find love, how to manage your time.
0:35.9	These are the new gurus.
0:38.0	Just as you will say, the Protestant Reformation and the printing press went hand in hand.
0:42.6	So too did this.
0:44.5	Birth of the new Internet culture really give rise to this new religious landscape.
0:49.0	Subscribe now to the new gurus on BBC Sounds.
0:56.1	Can you hear that sound?
0:58.1	Sounds a bit like someone talking.
0:59.6	That is the sound of me welcoming you to an entirely new year of the news quiz.
1:04.3	APPLAUSE
1:06.3	We are...
1:15.2	We are barely a week into 2024, and already I've broken my two new year's resolutions,
1:21.3	not to add one to all numbers.
1:23.4	LAUGHTER
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