The News Quiz: Ep1. Messiah or Doctor?
4/24/202629 min
After six weeks off air Andy Zaltzman is back. Helping him kick off the series are Andrew Maxwell, Zoe Lyons, Stephen Bush and Kiri Pritchard-McLean. They’ll be tackling the big questions - how is the country feeling ahead of the potentially seismic elections on 7th May? Why is Donald Trump feuding with the Pope and why are mini-gherkins now harder to find than ever?
Written by Andy Zaltzman.
With additional material by: Mike Shephard, Ruth Husko, Dee Allum and Angela Channell Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Asha Osborne-Grinter Sound Editor: Marc Willcox
A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.
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First 90 secondsAndy Zaltzman· Host0:00
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Andy Zaltzman· Host1:06
[Instrumental music plays] Welcome to another series of The News Quiz. I'm Zaltzman. [laughs] As you'll have heard, the BBC are making... To be precise, they're making cuts of 10 per- [laughs] This means that every 10th word in this week's won't be said. [laughs] So some jokes may not have... And those that do still have punchlines-