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The News Quiz: Vintage Treasures

The News Quiz: Vintage Treasures

  • Classic highlights from the topical BBC Radio 4 panel show

  • BBC Radio Comedy

  • Full Cast (Read by)

  • Sandi Toksvig (Read by)

  • Barry Took (Read by)

  • Bill Tidy (Read by)

  • Simon Hoggart (Read by)

  • Ian Hislop (Read by)

  • Sarah Millican (Read by)

  • Miles Jupp (Read by)

  • Susan Calman (Read by)

RELEASED 24/06/2021

A brand new collection of previously unpublished episodes taken from the programme's first four decades.

The News Quiz began on Radio 4 in 1977 and continues to be hugely popular to this day. The first host was Barry Norman, and subsequently Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, Miles Jupp, Nish Kumar, Angela Barnes and Andy Zaltzman have all take the chair. The show's guests have been drawn from the cream of British comedians, journalists and politicians: Alan Coren, Richard Ingrams, Ian Hislop, Peter Cook, Linda Smith, Jeremy Hardy, Clive Anderson, Jo Brand, William Hague, Boris Johnson, Edwina Currie, Matthew Parris and many more.

In this vintage collection, hear the comedy guests trawl through news stories big and small to provide comedy, commentary, irony and irreverence - and an insight into how news events of the past were viewed at the time.

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Steve Punt is a writer, comedian and actor. Along with Hugh Dennis, he is part of comedy double act Punt and Dennis and presenter of BBC Radio 4 satirical news programme The Now Show. He is also a writer and programme associate for various television panel game shows, including Would I Lie to You? and Mock the Week, and is a writer for fellow comedians such as Rory Bremner and Jasper Carrott. Hugh Dennis is a comedian, actor, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist, best known for being one half of Punt and Dennis and for playing Pete Brockman, the father in the BBC One sitcom Outnumbered. He is a panellist on the BBC Two satirical comedy show Mock the Week.

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