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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

The News Quiz: Ep3. Bored of peace

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.113.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week we'll be looking at Trump's Board of Peace and asking whether Trump is bored of peace. We'll be working out how China managed to afford to get on the central London property ladder with their new mega-embassy, and hoping that a clever cow who can use a tool to scratch its back can up its game and sort out global diplomacy before it's too late. Joining Andy to help make sense of all the madness is Lucy Porter, Alasdair Beckett-King, Stephen Bush and Shappi Khorsandi.

Written by Andy Zaltzman.

With additional material by: Christina Riggs, Cameron Loxdale, Ruth Husko and Dee Allum. Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: James Robinson 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.

0:05.7

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:12.7

But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,

0:18.2

The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials

0:22.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan.

0:25.9

However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked.

0:30.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:41.0

Hello? Listen only on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Andy Zopsman.

0:44.0

Welcome to the news quiz, et cetera, et cetera.

0:45.6

We need to crack on in case the latest news changes between now and the time I've finished introducing my guest panelists for this week's show.

0:51.4

Our teams this week, we have Team Great Power against Team Great Irresponsibility.

0:56.0

On Team Power, we have Lucy Porter and from the Financial Times, Stephen Bush.

1:01.9

And on Team Great Irresponsibility, we have Shaping or Sandy and Alistair Beckett President. King, sorry.

1:08.6

I'm always getting those two mixed up these days.

1:12.2

Right, our first question, this can go to Lucy and Stephen.

1:14.9

Whose demand for a piece of ice left NATO on the rocks this week?

1:19.9

So it's Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which my invitation got lost in the post.

1:29.5

So he went in, all guns blazing and said, I want Greenland, I just want it, whatever it takes to get it. Like, I want to

1:35.9

own it. I don't want to rent it because I want to put picture hooks up and paint the walls.

1:40.2

And he made his very typical concise, eloquent speech in which he basically said,

1:49.4

you owe me Greenland, because we used to have it. It was ours once. I mean, it wasn't,

1:55.0

but, and so we need to have it back. And if you don't't then I'm going to put loads of tariffs on you

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