The News Quiz - 7th June
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news. Providing all the answers are Ian Smith, Geoff Norcott, Shaparak Khorsandi and Anushka Asthana.
In this first episode of the new series, the panel catches up on all things General Election, Trumped up charges (all 34), and a recently discovered royal kid.
Written by Andy Zaltzman
With additional material by: Christina Riggs, Jade Gebbie, Mike Shephard & Stephen Mawhinney Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Marc Willcox
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Garrelinika here with Alan Shearer and Mike Wicherichs to say the |
| 0:05.2 | match of the day top 10 podcast is back. We'll be ranking our footballing |
| 0:09.8 | top 10s and debaitin who is right. We've got quite a good list obviously there's an |
| 0:14.8 | exception. It's the top 10 euros golden boot winners. Now we're talking |
| 0:20.1 | that's all right. You're not going wrong. Really? |
| 0:23.4 | Definitely not. Oh, thanks. |
| 0:26.0 | Mash is the day, top 10. Listen only on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, I am Andy's Altzman and I'm here at GQ to test the new national excitementometer |
| 0:42.0 | to see how this election campaign is inspiring the country. |
| 0:46.5 | It simply hacks into everyone's computers, tablets, mobile phone, smart speakers, dating profiles |
| 0:50.9 | and souls and interprets the state of their political |
| 0:53.7 | excitedness. Sorry it seems to be broken I'm not getting a reading. Oh no sorry it |
| 1:01.5 | was working and I wasn't getting a reading. |
| 1:04.3 | Let's see if we can crank it up to at least 0.01 dimmobiles as we welcome you to the new series of the news |
| 1:08.9 | quiz. Yes, welcome to the first news quiz of the 2024 election campaign. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, as you can see, we have hand selected an audience which represents the mood of the entire nation. |
| 1:26.0 | During this pre-election per-period, of course, there are some restrictions on what we are and are not allowed to say. |
| 1:32.0 | We have been asked, for example, to try to minimize the use of the phrases, |
| 1:35.1 | sodding hell, what have we become? |
| 1:39.2 | Please make it stop and dear great Uncle Peter, |
| 1:41.8 | I'm sorry you died for this maximum of one per minute |
| 1:46.8 | I think for each of those and our teams in this week are the first leaders debate and in a tribute to |
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