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  • 28 minutes 58 seconds
    The News Quiz: Ep6. Corruption Leagues and Leaked WhatsApps

    Topical panel quiz show, taking its questions from the week's news stories.

    21 February 2025, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 56 seconds
    The News Quiz: Ep5. Tariffs, Tabloids and Typewriters

    On The News Quiz this week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Ayesha Hazarika, Susie McCabe, Geoff Norcott and Pierre Novellie to discuss Britain's attempts to court the US and the EU, Trump's tariff turmoil, new report cards from Ofsted, and Starmer's uncovered voice coaching.

    Written by Andy Zaltzman.

    With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Alex Kealy, Christina Riggs and Stuart McPherson. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

    A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production.

    14 February 2025, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 30 seconds
    The News Quiz: Ep 4. Gear shifting and Shoplifting

    This week on The News Quiz, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Simon Evans, Athena Kugblenu, Susie McCabe and Hugo Rifkind to unpack the week's new stories. In the week Keir Starmer set his sights on growth, the panel looked at backing of a third runway at Heathrow, a shoplifting epidemic, and the decline of urban chess in the streets of Nottingham.

    Written by Andy Zaltzman.

    With additional material by: Cameron Loxdale, Sascha LO, Meryl O'Rourke and Peter Tellouche. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Manager: David Thomas Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

    A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production.

    7 February 2025, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 37 seconds
    The News Quiz: Ep 3. The Donald and The Dons

    This week on The News Quiz, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Andrew Maxwell, Val McDermid, Jay Lafferty and Stuart Mitchell to unpack the week's new stories. Recorded from the Gardyne Theatre in Dundee, the panel look into Donald Trump's first week of his second term, Prince Harry's legal victories, Scottish Health Minister Neil Gray's sporting excursions, and the honour of the Glaswegian accent.

    Written by Andy Zaltzman.

    With additional material by: Rebecca Bain, Cody Dahler, Alexandra Haddow and Peter Tellouche. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Manager: Sean Kerwin Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

    A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production.

    31 January 2025, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 33 seconds
    The News Quiz: Ep 2. Unconditional Discharge In Charge

    This week on The News Quiz, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Nish Kumar, Sara Barron, Glenn Moore and Zing Tsjeng to unpack the week's new stories. The panel look into Donald Trump's unconditional discharge and his looming inauguration, as well as Keir Starmer's unleashing of AI, and Tulip Siddiq's resignation.

    Written by Andy Zaltzman.

    With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Christina Riggs, Mike Shephard and Ben Pope. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

    A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production.

    24 January 2025, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 28 seconds
    The News Quiz: Ep 1. Checked Facts & Unfettered Fictions

    This week on The News Quiz, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Geoff Norcott, Paul Sinha, Angela Barnes and Anushka Asthana to unpack the week's new stories. The panel look into Donald Trump's international ambitions, Keir Starmer looking ahead to the not-too-distant, yet not-too-close future, and the relentless interjections to British politics from Elon Musk.

    Written by Andy Zaltzman.

    With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Christina Riggs Mike Shephard, and Angela Channell. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Pete Strauss. Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

    A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production

    17 January 2025, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 28 seconds
    Best of The News Quiz 2024

    A satirical smorgasbord of The News Quiz's best bits of the year. Covering international tensions, a UK General Election, and of course the question on everyone’s lips, what exactly was a ‘Brat Summer’?

    With Andy Zaltzman in the chair, full of whimsical animal metaphors and cricket stats, we’ll hear highlights from the crème de la crème of British and international comedy and journalism to dissect the news. It's a chance to return to, and revel in, some of 2024's funniest moments, starring Ian Smith, Lucy Porter, Geoff Norcott, Alasdair Beckett-King, Mark Steel, Ria Lina, Simon Evans and Zoe Lyons, amongst others.

    Come digest a dramatic year of news, along with the leftover turkey, as we say goodbye to 2024, goodbye to 14 years or Conservative rule, goodbye to short-lived presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, and goodbye to Earth’s temporary second moon.

    Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman

    Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman

    A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production

    10 January 2025, 4:06 pm
  • 28 minutes 40 seconds
    The Naked Christmas Week: Books, Trump, and When Is Bins?

    Landing slap-bang in the no-man’s land between Christmas and New Year, the Naked Week team will be heading out of the trenches to challenge the news to a game of football. This week, we find out which of the year's political memoirs passes our special test, and we ask the big Christmas question 'When Is Bins?'

    Expect festive advice, guests full of joy and wonder, and a little drummer boy (budget depending), as the show sticks its hand into all the Christmas current affairs, pulls out a bag of news-giblets and stuffs the airwaves with irreverent features, mischievous set-pieces and more jokes than you can shake a seasonal stick at.

    Presenter of Presents: Andrew Hunter Murray

    Chief Christmas Correspondent: Amy Hoggart

    Written by: Jon Holmes Jason Hazeley Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Adam Macqueen Louis Mian

    Produced by Jon Ho-ho-ho-Holmes.

    Production Team: Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler, Laura Grimshaw, Jerry Peal, Tony Churnside.

    An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

    3 January 2025, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 37 seconds
    The Naked Week: Ep4: Spies, Uncanny Ghosts, and Christmas Crackers

    The team give the news a hard stare as they try to recruit a spy and steal some of the Uncanny podcast's listening figures by contacting Nigel Farage with a ouija board.

    From The Skewer’s Jon Holmes comes The Naked Week, a fresh way of dressing the week’s news in the altogether and parading it around for everyone to laugh at.

    Host Andrew Hunter Murray and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart will strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way the news is packaged and presented.

    From award-winning writers and a crack team of contemporary satirists - and recorded in front of a live audience - The Naked Week delivers a topical news nude straight to your ears.

    Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis Mian

    Guests: Neil Frost and Chris Banatvala.

    Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler

    Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Philip Abrams

    An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

    27 December 2024, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 28 seconds
    The Naked Week: Ep 3. Prisons, Syria, and Kemi's Catchphrase.

    The team look at the week's news and, while trying understand how rebels took Syria so quickly, a military strategist helps us to take the Warwickshire stronghold of Nuneaton. Plus Rupert the Jorkiepoo helps solve the prison overcrowding crisis.

    From The Skewer’s Jon Holmes comes The Naked Week, a fresh way of dressing the week’s news in the altogether and parading it around for everyone to laugh at. Host Andrew Hunter Murray (No Such Thing As A Fish, QI Elf, Private Eye) and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news is packaged and presented.

    From award-winning writers and a crack team of contemporary satirists - and recorded in front of a live audience - The Naked Week delivers a topical news nude straight to your ears.

    Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis Mian

    Partial Nakedness: March Haynes Karl Minns

    Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.

    Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Philip Abrams

    An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

    20 December 2024, 7:00 pm
  • 28 minutes 40 seconds
    The Naked Week: Ep2. Spin, Milestones, and Monopoly (Qatar edition)

    We interrogate how many milestones make a mission, look at how some MPs fund their offices and with all the Gregg Wallace unpleasantness we put a crisis management expert under pressure to give celebrities tips on how to apologise.

    Host Andrew Hunter Murray, Chief Correspondent Amy Hoggart, The Skewer's Jon Holmes and The Naked Week team deliver a topical news-nude straight to your ears.

    The Naked Week team strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news is packaged and presented.

    Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis Mian

    Additional material: Marc Haynes Cornelius Mendez

    Guests this week: Jordan Greenaway Dr Beth Malory

    Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler

    Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Philip Abrams

    An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

    13 December 2024, 7:00 pm
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