The News Quiz - Friday 18th September 2020

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A satirical review of the week's news with Andy Zaltzman. This week Andy is joined by Paul Sinha, Ayesha Hazarika, Geoff Norcott and Catherine Bohart. Testing testing...is this thing on? Andy and the teams trace their way through another weekly deluge of news. Written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material by Simon Alcock, Alice Fraser, Ambika Mod and Mike Shephard. Producer: Richard Morris A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Andy Zoltzman. Gather around your radio,
0:07.2	not all of you at once, obviously, or I'll call the cops.
0:09.9	Thank you. I have a quiz in one hand,
0:12.1	I have the news in the other hand, and I've read all of it.
0:14.1	So neither you nor Dominic Robbe has to sit down
0:16.6	and plow through it from start to finish yourself.
0:19.5	You're welcome.
0:20.4	And to the relief of Jacob Reesmog,
0:22.1	the MP for West Carraka Chur,
0:24.0	are camping.
0:25.0	LAUGHTER
0:27.6	Our camping will not be endless, it will be 28 minutes maximum.
0:31.7	Welcome to the news quiz.
0:33.5	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:39.3	Yes, we have our live online audience there.
0:42.2	Thanks very much to Tim Berners-Lee for that.
0:44.8	We were running low on yogurt pots and strings.
0:49.0	We will be taking some of the audience's questions
0:51.5	during the show, but time to meet our two teams now this week.
0:54.9	We have a true clash for the ages.
0:57.0	Team Panic against Team Complacency.
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