The News Quiz: Ep8. Titles, Jewels and "Chocolate" Bars
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Alasdair Beckett-King, Laura Lexx, Ahir Shah and Ava Santina join Andy Zaltzman for this week's quiz.
Brace yourselves for stories about the stripping of both Royal Titles and Royal Crown Jewels as well as the big question of the moment, are things better or worse than they used to be?
Written by Andy Zaltzman Additional material by: Milo Edwards, Cameron Loxdale, Ruth Husko and Marty Gleeson Producer: Gwyn Rhys Davies Exec Producer: Richard Morris 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. |
| 0:24.1 | 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. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you. is out of ice cream. Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Andy Zaltman, and this is the final news quiz of 2025, |
| 0:48.2 | and it's a particularly high-stakes show today, |
| 0:49.9 | because our winning team will become the new hosts of Strictly Come Dancing. |
| 0:54.1 | So that's a lot on the line. |
| 0:56.7 | And our teams this week, well, it is, as you probably know, |
| 0:59.2 | 2013 Hollywood Blockbuster Awareness Week. |
| 1:02.1 | And in tribute to Donald Trump's strictly inspired home improvement project this week |
| 1:05.5 | and the UK government's efforts to turn its opinion poll ratings round, |
| 1:08.5 | we have Team White House Down against Team Frozen. |
| 1:12.1 | On Team White House down, we have Laura Lex and Alistair Beckett King. |
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