The News Quiz: Series 88: Eight episodes of the topical BBC Radio 4 panel game Audiobook (Free)

In his first series, Miles Jupp is in the chair for eight episodes of BBC Radio 4’s ever-popular topical comedy display.

The News Quiz,’the finest topical comedy panel video game recognized to radio’, has been providing headlines, punchlines and a sharply satirical take on the news because it first aired in 1977.

In these eight episodes, the players include regulars such as for example Mark Steel, Susan Calman, Jeremy Hardy, Samira Ahmed and Lucy Porter, as well as newer panellists including Danny Finkelstein, Sarah Kendall, Emily Ashton, Elis James and Sara Pascoe.

They dissect issues diverse and diverting, including Jeremy Corbyn; Lord Ashcroft’s biography of David Cameron; the 5p charge for plastic material luggage, the Rugby World Cup and Playboy’s cover-up. There is also the usual selection of funny cuttings submitted by listeners, browse bynewsreaders Neil Sleat, Kathy Clugston, Susan Rae and Diana Acceleration.

New boy Kilometers Jupp is within the chair following a retirement of Sandi Toskvig in the present in June 2015, building him the fifth host in the show’s 38-year history. Duration: 4 hours approx.