The News Quiz - 8th March

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mark Steel, Marie Le Conte, Simon Evans and Zoe Lyons join Andy Zaltzman for the last episode in the present series.

This week the panel give their 2p on the budget, the battle for the White House and what it might sound like if George Galloway joined the News Quiz.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Meryl O'Rourke, Molly McGuinness, Peter Tellouche and Christina Riggs.

Producer: Gwyn Rhys Davies Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Marc Willcox Recorded by Marc Willcox and Neva Missirian

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds Music music, radio podcasts.
0:36.0	Hello, welcome to the news quiz.
0:37.8	It was World Book Day this week, which we are marking here at the news quiz by taking delivery
0:42.4	of all the books in the world.
0:47.0	Right, I'll just pick one out completely at random to read to you from start to finish.
0:51.0	Right, this one, it's called Grounds for Optimism by Jay Hunt and R. Sunak.
0:57.0	Here we go. The end.
1:03.0	Love a short book.
1:06.0	Welcome to the News Quiz. Hello, welcome to the news quiz. I am Andy Zoltz. Welcome to the final news quiz of the current series.
1:19.2	Or the final news quiz of the current government.
1:23.4	Depending on when the election is, our teams this week to mark Jeremy Hunt's claim of what his budget would do
1:31.1	and his turnaround on non-dom tax status we have change history
1:34.9	against changed his story on team history we have Mark Steele and Simon Evans. On team history, Zoe Lyons, and the French Moroccan author and freelance political journalist
1:48.3	Marie Lacont.
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