The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy Audiobook (Free)

A headline-crunching celebration of Radio 4’s hugely successful topical humor quiz show

The News Quiz made its debut on Radio 4 in 1977, and four years later on it’s still playfully making and breaking the headlines of our daily news.

Among the vintage gems with this collection are 25 Years of the news headlines Quiz, where Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, John Sergeant, Linda Smith and Francis Wheen vacation through a quarter of a century of headline news, with Radio 4 newsreaders providing about The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the favorite Radio 4 comedy cuttings (and giggles) from 1977 to 2002. In the mean time The Archive Hour: Headlines, Deadlines and Punchlines, presented by Matthew Parris, features interviews with chairmen and panellists past and present including Barry Norman.

Also included are Barry Took and Simon Hoggart’s own selections of funniest moments through the 1980s to the 2000s. The variety of visitor players featured contains Clive Anderson, Joan Bakewell, Jo Brand, Rory Bremner, Peter Cook, Edwina Currie, Nigel Dempster, Roy Hattersley, Tony Hawks, Jeremy Hardy, Ian Hislop, Richard Ingrams, Clive James, Boris Johnson, Charles Kennedy, Miles Kington, Maureen Lipman, Stuart Maconie, Steve Punt, Willie Rushton, John Sergeant, Linda Smith, Mark Metal, Janet Street-Porter, Sandi Toksvig, John Wells and several, many more.

In the event that you enjoy your information humorously grilled, with a aspect order of biting wit, this classic collection is highly recommended.

A number of the humour on this release reflects the period in which it was first broadcast.