The News Quiz: Ep7. The worst birthday ever
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
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4.1 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Top of the agenda this week is some royal breaking news - who got a special birthday visit from the police? We’ll be analysing yet another government U-turn and see who’s emerged from the shadows for Nigel Farage’s proposed ‘shadow cabinet'. Plus a couple of stories on robots and aliens - something for everyone.
Joining Andy this week is Mark Steel, Daliso Chaponda, Coco Khan and Bella Hull.
Written by Andy Zaltzman.
With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Ruth Husko and Peter Tellouche. Producer: Georgia Keating 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. |
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| 0:09.0 | Football from Five Live. |
| 0:11.0 | Join the Five Live sport team for exclusive commentaries from the Premier League, |
| 0:15.1 | FA Cup and Champions League. |
| 0:16.8 | Nice for the Colonel! |
| 0:18.2 | Watch a goal! |
| 0:19.7 | And stay on top of everything football every day with the Football Daily podcast |
| 0:24.2 | and twice weekly join the Wayne Rooney show breaking down the biggest stories from the Premier League and beyond |
| 0:29.9 | football from five live listen on BBC Sounds |
| 0:34.3 | Hello I am Andy Zaltzman. |
| 0:40.4 | Ahead of this week's news quiz, I am at the Tower of London, |
| 0:43.6 | which has just been reactivated. |
| 0:50.6 | It's been a while since they needed it for its true original purpose, |
| 0:53.7 | but this week, well, just in case it's back in action. |
| 0:57.2 | Anyway, the law works a bit slower these days than when you're Henry VIII of this world just needed to growl at someone to have them tried convicted sentence and in some cases shortened. |
| 1:04.4 | So while we wait to see who the mystery guest could be, it's time to start this week's news quiz. |
| 1:12.6 | Hello. |
| 1:14.6 | Welcome to the news quiz in what has been another fractious week for Team Human. |
| 1:18.6 | You know the world must be in one of its angrier phases |
| 1:21.6 | when people are swearing at each other during curling matches. |
| 1:25.6 | What have we become? Our teams this week after it transpired |
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