The News Quiz: Ep3. When the King came round for tea
5/8/202629 min
This week you’re all cordially invited to join us for King Charles’ state visit to Donald Trump’s White House. Please dress to impress. We’ll also be digging into the state of the nation ahead of the upcoming elections on 7th May. Plus, what do we think about MPs drinking at work?
Written by Andy Zaltzman.
With additional material by: Matt Hulme, Eleri Morgan, Joe Topping and Angela Channell Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Asha Osborne-Grinter Sound Editor: Marc Willcox
A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.
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[piano music] Is your long-term relationship increasingly strained? Do you find that where once you could discuss difficult subjects with civility, now things tend to descend into mudslinging, name-calling, and petty insults? Are you worried that so many hurtful words have already been said between you that things will never quite be the same again? Then maybe you need a King Charles III. [laughing] Available for everything from behind-closed-doors chats, via potentially awkward double dates, to full-blown state banquets, a King Charles III can make everything seem okay again- [laughing] ... simply by talking in a soothingly royal, reassuringly neutral, and ostentatiously unconfrontational manner. Price on application. Warning, effects may wear off within days or hours. Not certified for use during actual negotiations. Suitable for use whilst listening to the News Quiz. [cheering] [upbeat music] Hello. Uh, to commemorate this week's historic meeting in Washington, DC between the House of Windsor frontman and America's multiply convicted president, our two teams this week are Team King of the Castle and Team Dirty Rascal. [laughing] And, uh, on Team Castle, we have Ashleigh Storrie and Vittorio Angeloni. [clapping] And on Team Rascal, Simon Evans and Times columnist Cindy Yu. [clapping] Uh, first question to Simon and Cindy, which