The News Quiz - 6th September

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Neil Delamere, Lucy Porter, Mark Steel, and Marie Le Conte join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news

In this first episode of a brand new series, Andy and the panel catch up on the events of Labour's first Brat Summer, take a look at a Tory leadership election, and have a brief check in on the rest of the world to make sure it's still there.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Mike Shephard, Meryl O'Rourke, Sarah Dempster & Peter Tellouche Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Your Dead to Me is back. Yes, we are the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:06.0	We should always be the stupidest person in the room because then you're in the right room.
0:09.5	This series will be excavated evidence on a pioneering paleontologist,
0:13.2	will learn about LGBTQ life in Weymah, Germany,
0:16.1	and will take a novel look at the history of printing.
0:18.6	So informative.
0:20.0	Join me, Greg Jennerner, and Gallant guests
0:22.2	like Robin Ince, Ed Gamble and Sarah Pasco.
0:24.7	I'm aging myself now like a dinosaur fossil.
0:27.6	There used to be only four channels.
0:29.3	You're dead to me. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:37.0	Hello, I'm Andy's Altman and welcome to the official opening ceremony of the new series of the news quiz.
0:43.0	Well, it seems to work for Olympics and Paralympics,
0:45.2	so I thought we'd give it a spin.
0:46.3	So to get this series underway, our Commissioned a spectacular
0:48.8	extra-extravaganser that encapsulates everything about news
0:52.1	as we know it. Here goes.
0:54.0	I think that captured it perfectly.
1:05.0	Hereby declare the 115th series of the news quiz.
1:24.0	Sorry, I can't start the show yet, so I'm just in a queue for tickets.
1:29.0	Not for Oasis, but actually for just going back in time to the 90s.
1:35.0	Well, our teams this week in the week that we've heard that Oasis are getting back together and as
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