The News Quiz: Ep7. Forecast for Inflation and Flooding

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In a week of budget talks, IMF forecasts of Inflation on the British horizon, flood risk reports and approval of solar farms, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Adam Kay, Zoe Lyons, Ria Lina and Stephen Bush to break down this weeks news.

Written by Andy Zaltzman.

With additional material by: Daman Bamrah, Ruth Husko, Christina Riggs and Peter Tellouche. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron.
0:10.5	Evil genius.
0:11.6	He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it.
0:15.5	That's like hiding at your own funeral.
0:17.1	Yeah, a bit great gig.
0:18.6	I'm Russell Kane.
0:19.6	Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius.
0:24.2	Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius.
0:26.4	It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:29.4	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.
0:34.9	Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.
0:39.5	Hello, I'm Andy Zaltzman. Before we start this week's news quiz, I'm doing a charity collection.
0:46.0	I'm trying to raise £122 million for our featured charity this week, COVID scammers in need.
0:55.2	I've been collecting around the country for the last two weeks now,
0:58.2	and so far in the bucket, we have, let's have a look,
1:00.9	five bottle tops, a commemorative Matt Hancock Action Man,
1:05.3	a two-p, that someone mustook for a baby hedgehog that's been run over by a milk float.
1:09.4	Oh, and a few million unusable hospital gowns.
1:11.8	So their resale value means we are still now just
1:14.9	£122 million short of our target.
1:18.8	Whilst I list all the fixtures and fittings from the BBC Radio Theatre on eBay,
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