The News Quiz: Ep1. Red, White, Blue and Green-land

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.1 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

With Andy away at The Ashes, guest host Ian Smith steps in to make sense of a dramatic news week. Topics include the US capturing Nicolás Maduro and threatening to invade Greenland, new driving rules for the over 70s and the problem with Grok AI. Helping Ian decide which way to turn are Ria Lina, Hugo Rifkind, Lucy Porter and Geoff Norcott.

Written by Ian Smith.

With additional material by: Mike Shephard, Alex Kealy and Angela Channell Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.4	If you like this...
0:07.8	What you're telling me? You're a traitor.
0:09.9	Yes, we're in there.
0:11.6	Then you'll love the final week of The Traitors Uncloked.
0:14.6	We'll get to see how the final few faithful react
0:16.8	when they find out who the traitors are.
0:18.8	And we'll chat to celebrity fans
0:20.2	to hear their theories on what's going to happen next. It's fun to not are and we'll chat to celebrity fans to hear their
0:20.8	theories on what's going to happen next.
0:22.7	It's fun to not know and it's fun to be
0:24.6	confused as well. See and hear it
0:26.6	all in the nail-biting last week of the traitors
0:28.8	uncloked. The official visualised
0:30.6	companion podcast with me, Ed Gamble.
0:33.0	Watch on EyePlayer, listen for more
0:34.6	on BBC Sounds.
0:41.2	Hello. My Player, listen for more on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to the News Quiz.
0:44.9	I'm Ian Smith, your guest host for the show this week,
0:47.5	and I was really hoping for a straightforward news week.
0:50.3	Just some fun stories to ease myself in. No major global events.
0:54.6	That's not exactly worked out.
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