The News Quiz: Ep 6. Cleverly Timed Exits
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week on The News Quiz the panel unpack Sue Gray's cabinet exit, the arrival of man (and possible Irish Law firm) Morgan McSweeney and James Cleverly pipped at the post.
Written by Geoff Norcott
With additional material by: Cody Dahler, James Farmer, Tom Mayhew and Christina Riggs. 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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| 0:49.0 | Andy Zoltzmann has not transitioned into a plumber from Luton. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Jeff Norkot and I'm filling in for Andy this. has not transitioned into a plumber from Luton. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm filling in for Andy this week. |
| 0:55.4 | So expect fewer cricket references, |
| 0:57.8 | however the quickfire round will be an entire leg of dots. |
| 1:01.7 | This is the news quiz. |
| 1:03.4 | Hello and welcome to this week's news quiz. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello and welcome to this week's news quiz. |
| 1:13.0 | Since Andy's horseman announced I'd be deputizing at the end of last week's show, |
| 1:16.4 | I've had the usual questions. |
| 1:17.9 | Jeff, at the BBC, only using you for diversity reasons. |
| 1:21.1 | And the answer is, like yeah, obviously yeah obviously clearly I am the first |
| 1:24.2 | self-evidently working-class person to host a news quiz so the downside with this |
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