The News Quiz Ep8. - Peter Scandalman
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.1 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
For the final episode of this series, we look at some of the stories that we’re leaving unresolved in our ‘News Quiz 2026 Summer Break Cliffhanger Special’. This includes the latest on the Peter Mandelson scandal and the back and forth between Trump, Israel and Iran. We also discuss the British animals which might make it onto our banknotes, and Andy challenges the panel on their best ways to improve football ahead of this year’s Men’s World Cup.
This week’s panel is Pierre Novellie, Alasdair Beckett-King, Coco Khan and Desiree Burch.
Written by Andy Zaltzman.
With additional material by: Lotte Allan, Angela Channell, Eve Delaney and Katie Storey Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Asha Osborne-Grinter Sound Editor: Marc Willcox Recorded by David Thomas
A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | My name's Steve Bracknell, a sister manager at Royal Oak FC. |
| 0:12.0 | You may have seen me online with Vinyl. Vinyl sensation. |
| 0:16.3 | And now the BBC have given me the chance to set the footballing world banter rights. |
| 0:22.4 | VAR. If we analyse everything for five minutes, you'll always find a fault we're in. |
| 0:27.2 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:28.3 | We're going to claim back the beautiful game. |
| 0:30.6 | Games gone. The Steve Bracknell podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | Listen, on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, I am Andy Zaltzman. |
| 0:38.3 | This is the news quiz. |
| 0:44.3 | Sorry, I wrote this bit of the show on WhatsApp. |
| 0:57.0 | I know it sounds silly, but I didn't think anyone would need to listen to it. Anyway, living alone. On we go. Welcome to the news quiz. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello. Let's meet our teams and Walter Mark, the imminent World Cup. Our team's our team. It's it's coming home versus Team, yes, but it's got loads of homes these days, |
| 1:14.9 | and we'll probably go to one of the homes in Spain or France. |
| 1:19.1 | On Team Coming Home, Piano Valley and Desiree Birch. |
| 1:26.5 | And on team, it's probably staying out, not coming home. It's Alistair Becker King and from Pod Save the UK, Cocoa Khan. |
| 1:37.2 | And we're going to start this show by looking at some of the stories. We're leaving unresolved in our news quiz, |
| 1:41.7 | 2026 summer break, cliffhanger special. Firstly, for Coco and |
| 1:46.0 | Alistair, whose appointment |
| 1:47.8 | might or might not, by September, |
| 1:50.6 | cause the collapse of the Starma |
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