The News Quiz - Friday 4th September 2020

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman is the new host of the News Quiz, chewing over a week of headlines with a panel of comics and journalists. This week Helen Lewis, Lucy Porter, Andrew Maxwell and Daliso Chaponda are the guests in this first episode of the series recorded with a remote audience watching and listening from home. Producer: Richard Morris Production co-ordinator: Gwyn Davies A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, I am Andy Zoltzmann.
0:07.0	It is September 2020 and disappointingly.
0:09.0	We have just heard that the world has today
0:12.0	dropped out of the top three planets in the solar system rankings
0:15.0	for the first time since the dinosaurs went extinct.
0:18.0	We've swapped the world and it has tested news positive.
0:21.0	The treatment suggested a quiz.
0:23.0	So welcome to the new series of the news quiz.
0:31.0	Well, and as you may have just heard a home joining us this series
0:35.0	a big welcome back for the first time since the before times two,
0:38.0	a live audience.
0:43.0	Or be a live audience that is live in their own homes
0:47.0	via the 21st century witchcraft that is a live video conference call.
0:51.0	They're all arachn, I can see them now, I can see some absolutely wonderful bookshelves.
0:56.0	I never knew there were so many Mr Men and Little Miss books.
0:59.0	Or that Michael Gove had published a third volume of erotic limo-ricks.
1:07.0	So thank you all for joining us virtually.
1:10.0	Just a quick question for our audience.
1:12.0	Could you please now sum up the summer just past in one noise?
1:19.0	Well, that is the first correct answer of the series,
1:22.0	a groan of confusion.
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