The News Quiz: Ep 1. Checked Facts & Unfettered Fictions
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week on The News Quiz, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Geoff Norcott, Paul Sinha, Angela Barnes and Anushka Asthana to unpack the week's new stories. The panel look into Donald Trump's international ambitions, Keir Starmer looking ahead to the not-too-distant, yet not-too-close future, and the relentless interjections to British politics from Elon Musk.
Written by Andy Zaltzman.
With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Christina Riggs Mike Shephard, and Angela Channell. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Pete Strauss. Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox
A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others. |
| 0:05.2 | My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:11.3 | It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here, |
| 0:16.3 | but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world. |
| 0:19.6 | And because the team is such a diverse |
| 0:21.2 | range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through |
| 0:26.0 | archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if |
| 0:31.8 | you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories |
| 0:37.1 | from all around the UK. BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK. |
| 0:40.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:43.9 | Hello, before we start this new series of the news quiz, |
| 0:46.5 | I just have to open this legal letter that we've just received. |
| 0:51.9 | Dear Mr Zaltzman, please cease and desist any suggestions that I, Liz Truss, was once Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| 1:03.8 | My seven-week residency in Downing Street can by no objective means be described as being Prime Minister. |
| 1:11.3 | Furthermore, you are hereby instructed to acknowledge that whilst I was in Downing Street, |
| 1:15.4 | I had no control of events. |
| 1:17.5 | Your sincerely, former Prime Minister Liz Truss. |
| 1:21.7 | D.S. I preferred Sandy Toxvig. |
| 1:23.8 | Zick! |
| 1:26.1 | Welcome to a new year of the news quiz. |
| 1:28.3 | Hello. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm Andy Zaltzman and welcome to the news quiz review of the year so far. |
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