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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

The News Quiz: Ep 5. Peace & Peaks

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.213.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Alasdair Beckett-King, Zoe Lyons, Scott Bennett, and Cindy Yu join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news.

This week on The News Quiz the panel look for the solution to world peace, check in with the Conservative final four, and tackle Everest (not literally).

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Cody Dahler, Dee Allum, and Peter Tellouche Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris 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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Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to tell you why I love

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podcasting. I'm Natasha Aronson I'm an assistant commissioner for the BBC and I work on

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making podcasts my real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest

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stars who can really bring those stories to life.

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So whatever we commission has to reflect the things that you care about and love wherever you are in the

0:36.0

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0:47.0

BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcast. Right, after taking in this week's news, I have had enough.

0:51.0

So world, you have just under half an hour to fix things or I quit for the

0:55.8

rest of the year and let me make very clear that this is in no way linked to England's

1:00.4

imminent cricket tour in Pakistan in which I will be part of

1:03.8

BBC's test match special team providing exclusive coverage of every ball

1:06.8

of every match from Monday morning. That is entirely coincidental.

1:09.9

Right, so let's put a clock on it. Starting now. In the meantime, welcome to the first test.

1:16.0

Sorry, sorry, sorry, wrong show.

1:19.0

Welcome to the news quiz. the world that our teams this week, somewhat nostalgiaically and named afterwards that are

1:33.8

being officially removed from the English dictionary

1:35.9

at the end of the year because they're no longer needed.

1:37.8

We have team optimism against team nuance.

1:41.0

I will miss them both.

1:42.3

On team optimism, we have Scott Bennett's and well it was

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