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Sep 2020
28m 44s

The News Quiz - Friday 18th September 20...

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

A satirical review of the week's news with Andy Zaltzman. This week Andy is joined by Paul Sinha, Ayesha Hazarika, Geoff Norcott and Catherine Bohart.

Testing testing...is this thing on? Andy and the teams trace their way through another weekly deluge of news.

Written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material by Simon Alcock, Alice Fraser, Ambika Mod and Mike Shephard.

Producer: Richard Morris A BBC Studios Production

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