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The News Quiz Classic Collection
- 12 Original Episodes from the Topical Radio 4 Comedy Panel Show
- Narrated by: Barry Norman, Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, John Sergeant, Mark Steel, Sheridan Morley, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Radio/TV Programme
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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In his first series, Miles Jupp is in the chair for eight episodes of BBC Radio 4's ever-popular topical comedy show. The News Quiz,'the finest topical comedy panel game known to radio', has been providing headlines, punchlines and a sharply satirical take on the news since it first aired in 1977. In these eight episodes, the players include regulars such as Mark Steel, Susan Calman, Jeremy Hardy, Samira Ahmed and Lucy Porter....
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Strange ending to episode 7.
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Virtually a duplication of Series 98...
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The News Quiz: Series 96
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One of the funniest shows on Radio 4
- By Pengwen on 27-07-19
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The complete 95th series from the long-running topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, hosted by Miles Jupp. Eight more episodes featuring a panel of comedy guests who trawl through news stories big and small to provide comedy, commentary, irony and irreverence. Guests featured in this series include Helen Lewis, Andrew Maxwell, Zoe Lyons, Simon Evans, Angela Barnes, Lucy Porter, Lloyd Langford, Peter Oborne, Jeremy Hardy, Kerry Godliman, Daliso Chaponda, Isabel Hardman, Andy Hamilton, Fern Brady, Vicki Pepperdine, Hugo Rifkind, Mark Steel, Desiree Burch and Fred MacAuley.
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funny. funny. funny
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The News Quiz: Series 94
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The complete 94th series from the long-running topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, hosted by Miles Jupp. Eight more episodes featuring a panel of comedy guests who trawl through news stories big and small to provide comedy, commentary, irony and irreverence. Guests featured in this series include Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Desiree Burch, Lucy Porter, Holly Walsh, Rich Hall, Mark Steel and Katy Brand.
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best way to get news :)
- By TheCritic on 01-05-18
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation: The Complete Series 1-10
- The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series
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Few can forget where they were in September 1993 when they first heard Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series, the show has gone on to win Sony awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Included here are all 10 series of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation.
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Brilliant!
- By Amazon Customer on 26-09-21
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The News Quiz: Series 99
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The complete 99th series from the long-running topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, hosted by Miles Jupp, with special guest hosts. Eight more episodes featuring a panel of comedy guests who trawl through news stories big and small to provide comedy, commentary, irony and irreverence.
Summary
Twelve rare archive editions of the humorous radio quiz show that gives a poke in the eye to the people and stories that make the news.
For over 40 years The News Quiz has graced the Radio 4 airwaves with an irreverent sideways look at the headlines. Having first appeared in 1977, it boasts a tantalising archive of episodes to remind us of the news from yesteryear, refracted through the satirical gaze of regular panellists including Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Mark Steel, Francis Wheen and Jeremy Hardy. Among the many guest panellists featured here are Boris Johnson, Nigella Lawson, Jo Brand, Eddie Mair, John Sergeant, Linda Smith and Roy Hattersley.
Sit back and enjoy these 12 vintage episodes, previously unpublished in their entirety. Barry Norman, Sheridan Morley, Barry Took, John Sergeant, Simon Hoggart and Sandi Toksvig take turns in the chair as a parade of Prime Ministers, party leaders, US presidents and other newsworthy mortals passes by.
The episodes included in this collection are:
01/04/1977 with Barry Normal as the Chairman and Richard Ingrams, Nigel Dempster, Russell Davies and Alan Coren as the players.
16/08/1980 with Sheridan Morley as the Chairman and Simon Hoggart, Clement Freud, Bel Mooney and Alan Coren as the players.
06/05/1995 with Barry Normal as the Chairman and Francis Wheen, Bill Deedes, Alan Coren and Gillian Reynolds as the players.
20/04/1996 with Barry Normal as the Chairman and Francis Wheen, Roy Hattersley, Alan Coren and Andy Hamilton as the players.
09/04/1999 with John Sergeant as the Chairman and Boris Johnson, Tony Hawks, Francis Wheen, and Alan Coren as the players.
01/10/1999 with Simon Hoggart as the Chairman and Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen, John O’Donnell and Mark Steel as the players.
29/10/1999 with Simon Hoggart as the Chairman and Nigella Lawson, Jeremy Hardy, Alan Coren and Andy Hamilton as the players.
19/10/2001 with Simon Hoggart as the Chairman and Jeremy Hardy, Jo Brand, Alan Coren and John Sergeant as the players.
18/07/2003 with Simon Hoggart as the Chairman and Linda Smith, Francis Wheen, Jeremy Hardy and Eddie Mair as the players.
29/10/2004 with Simon Hoggart as the Chairman and Richard Ingrams, Francis Wheen, Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig as the players.
20/02/2009 with Sandi Toksvig as the Chairman and Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Shappi Khorsandi and Mark Steel as the players.
10/05/2013 with Sandi Toksvig as the Chairman and Francis Wheen, Jeremy Hardy, Bridget Christie and Bob Mills as the players.
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- eightballtrickshot
- 19-08-19
This is all very good but . . .
Yes, it’s quite fun but . . . I love the News Quiz and have been listening on podcast for years, since about halfway through Sandi’s run. It’s nice to be reminded of: not only the important events of the day but; what people’s attitudes to them were.
So, BBC Audio: give us complete series! I’ve got series 75, 78 & 79, but not 76 & 77! This mix and match, ‘random’ selection (large portions of which I’ve already heard in my other News Quiz audiobooks on Audible) is OK, but I’d like complete, sequential, series’ dealing with the ‘79 election, live aid, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Maastricht treaty etc etc etc
There’s 99 series of News Quiz—at £8 per month that’s £792 that I (and perhaps some others) would be happy to spend
And, y’know, the same kind-of applies to Have I got News For You as well (on iTunes, presumably)
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- S. M. A. John
- 31-07-21
BBC News Quiz
Political satire at its best. I particularly enjoy the episodes hosted by Sandi Toksvig with fantastic rants about the hypocrisy of our political leaders.
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- John Bunyan
- 06-07-21
Makes me laugh every time
We all miss Jeremy Hardy, but he lives on in these recordings. Very funny. Recommended.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-12-20
wonderful collection
this collection covers full episodes over many years of one of bbc radios' funniest shows. made me laugh out loud many times