The News Quiz - Friday 30th April 2021

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman presents a look back at the week's headlines with Simon Evans, Helen Lewis, Elis James and Ria Lina. This week decorating, vaccinating and electioneering are subject to scrutiny by our teams. Written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material from Alice Fraser, Mike Shephard, Tasha Dhanraj and Tom Mayhew. Producer: Richard Morris and Gwyn Rhys Davies A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.6	This episode of The News Quiz was recorded before the news broke this morning that the third
0:10.5	millennium has been cancelled.
0:12.4	These renowned, thousand-year-long time span will be reset to begin again for another go
0:19.6	to see if it can do better this time on Monday, which now becomes the 1st of January 2000,
0:25.5	or 2001 if you're a pedant.
0:28.8	Happy New Year and welcome to The News Quiz.
0:31.7	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:37.8	Hello, I'm Andy Zoltzman, and welcome to The News Quiz in the spirit of the week.
0:42.3	All panelists this week are entitled to listen to my questions, ignore them,
0:46.2	and then answer a completely different question that exists only in their own heads.
0:50.8	LAUGHTER
0:52.7	It's time to meet this week's teams.
0:54.2	Our team, sir, for this week, it's team Oh, no, he didn't.
0:57.2	Versus team Oh, yes, he did. Versus team Oh, well, I guess he might have done,
1:01.2	but there's no proof so we're still saying Oh, no, he didn't.
1:03.7	Versus team Look, we appreciate that whether he did or he didn't,
1:06.7	there are more important things that he both did and didn't do, but still Oh, yes, he did.
1:10.6	LAUGHTER
1:12.8	Four teams this week, let's pair them up for simplicity into The News and Yeses.
1:17.0	I think that averages out to team Now, whatever against team, yeah, right.
1:21.2	So on team Now, whatever, it's Helen Lewis and Ellis James.
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