The News Quiz
- Radio panel show
- BBC Radio 4
- 1977 - 2025
- 1100 episodes (116 series)
A long-running satirical Radio 4 panel show that takes a look at the week's more humorous news stories. Stars Andy Zaltzman, Angela Barnes, Nish Kumar, Miles Jupp, Sandi Toksvig and more.
- Returns on Friday 3rd January on Radio 4 at 6:30pm with Series 116, Highlights Special
Episode menu
Series 113, Episode 3
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 19th January 2024
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Recorded
-
- Wednesday 17th January 2024, 19:30 at Taliesin Arts Centre (Swansea)
Catch-up
Cast & crew
| Andy Zaltzman | Host / Presenter |
| Lucy Porter | Guest |
| Ayesha Hazarika | Guest |
| Robin Morgan | Guest |
| Tadiwa Mahlunge | Guest |
| Andy Zaltzman | Writer |
| Cameron Loxdale | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Cody Dahler | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Callum Jones | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Sam Holmes | Producer |
| James Robinson | Executive Producer |
| Marc Willcox | Sound Designer |
Press
Rail minister Huw Merriman sppeared on Kay Burley's Sky News show and fingered Radio 4's satirical News Quiz as flagrantly unbalanced for, er, attacking the governing party. Although he later acknowledged that "it may not have been The News Quiz", he did say it was "totall biased". Which is odd, as the producer of The News Quiz, a young comedian named Sam Russell-Holmes, came to the show as an audio producer fresh from a role at Conservative bible The Spectator! Oddly, the Spectator - normally keen to weigh in on such matters, such as last summer when Rod Liddle declared that Auntie's "unceasing wokeish bias is exacerbating the national stampede for the off switch" - seems to have given the Beeb an easier ride this time.
Private Eye, 31st January 2024