The News Quiz: Ep 2. Cards revealed and Reshufffle

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman is joined by Daliso Chaponda, Susie McCabe, Geoff Norcott and Ash Sarkar to break down the week in news. Expect discussion on the Labour Deputy Leader Election, the return of the Mandelson, strikes on Qatar, Russian drones in Poland and telepathic Google searches. Written by Andy Zaltzman. With additional material by: Simon Alcock, Carwyn Blayney, Ruth Husko and Alex Kealy. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Caroline Barlow Sound Editor: Marc Willcox A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	Your time starts now.
0:07.2	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.4	Absolutely right.
0:11.5	So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts.
0:15.6	Really?
0:16.4	Wow.
0:17.2	Many of them are very funny.
0:19.1	Which I think means...
0:20.3	A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do very funny. Which I think means... A hatful of ha haas.
0:21.7	And energy.
0:39.4	Even if you do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. Hello, I'm Andy Zaltzman, four-time BBC Radio 4 News Quiz host of the year, which, given that I've been hosting it for five years, is a little bit disappointing.
0:48.1	Anyway, I'm here to tell you that if you're in the UK, you can now listen to brand new episodes of the newsquiz first on BBC Sounds, seven days earlier than anywhere else in the entire known universe. Just go to BBC Sounds, subscribe to Friday Night Comedy, and make sure you have push notifications turned on. That way, you will never miss a new episode.
1:18.0	Hello, I'm Andy Zaltzman, but welcome to the news quiz. It's been another one of those weeks, you know, the ones where humanity as a whole
1:20.6	really lets itself down.
1:21.6	I think that's heading towards 200,000 consecutive weeks of underachievement, which is an all-time
1:25.6	record.
1:26.6	But what is that thing? Right, rolled up newspaper time.
1:34.6	Oh, it was a Russian military drone.
1:38.6	I thought it was a bit big for a wasp.
1:41.8	Wasps don't usually have an eye heart vladimir sticker on them
1:44.6	before our airwaves get invaded by another unwanted aircraft all the rage these days let's
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