The News Quiz: Ep 3. Crossing the Pond, Crossing the Floor
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Andy Zaltzman is joined by Hugo Rifkind, Pierre Novellie, Sara Barron and Lucy Porter to break down the week in news. The panel unpack Trump's second state visit, the reserve banquet of seat fillers, foreign investment from the US, Ed Davey's Ancient Greek punishment, chimps drunk on fruit, and why Penny Mordaunt thinks it's no fun to be a Conservative anymore.
Written by Andy Zaltzman.
With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Ruth Husko, Sam Lake and Laura Major. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman 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 haas. |
| 0:21.7 | And energy! 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. Visiting American President Donald Trump said this week that the UK and the USA are like two notes in one chord. |
| 0:43.5 | In tribute to this touchingly poetic comment, I will play that chord for you. |
| 0:47.7 | Let me first find the notes that most exemplifies the UK. |
| 0:51.2 | I think that's this one. |
| 0:53.2 | And now the one that best expresses what America is. And now let's put |
| 0:58.0 | them together into that beautiful chord Trump spoke about. Maybe I played it wrong. We better |
| 1:06.2 | get the show started before there is any more discordance in this discordant world. Welcome to the |
| 1:10.0 | news quiz. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm Mandy Zaltman. Later on in the show, |
| 1:21.2 | we'll be clarifying the official etiquette to what to do if you're a princess and you're sitting next to a sex offender at a big dinner. |
| 1:26.7 | That's not related to anything that happened this week. |
| 1:28.3 | Let me emphasize that. |
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