Miles Jupp presents a look back at 40 years of the Great British institution that is The News Quiz. Since 1977 when Barry Norman, the inaugural chairman of the programme advised us to “keep taking those tabloids”, the News Quiz has charmed generations of listeners at home and abroad. The programme boasts upwards of 18 million listeners worldwide each year and the hallowed seats on its panel have been warmed by some of the biggest names from the worlds of both comedy and politics.

In this programme, incumbent News Quiz chairman Miles Jupp takes a look back at the funniest, most controversial and downright delightful moments from the last forty years of a programme that has helped to define British satire. Miles will remind us how the News Quiz team tackled not just the serious world events of the last four decades but also how they got to grips with stories of donkeys getting stuck down wells and similar whimsy. Join Miles for 40 years of laughs (big ones), political insight (fleeting) and cuttings (rude) in one hour!

Featuring:

Linda Smith, Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Barry Norman, Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, Clive James, Richard Ingrams, Mark Steel, Zoe Lyons, Angela Barnes, Fred MacAulay, Ian Hislop, Francis Wheen, Hugo Rifkind, Helen Lewis, Danny Finkelstein, Holly Walsh, John Sergeant, Desiree Birch, Sara Pascoe, Sarah Millican, Rory Bremner, Rich Hall, Vicki Pepperdine, Charles Kennedy, Clive Anderson, Sue Perkins, David Mitchell, Armando Iannucci

Susan Rae, Brian Perkins, Charlotte Green, Alan Smith, Catriona Young, Neil Sleat, Peter Donaldson, Corrie Corfield, Diana Speed, Kathy Clugston

Presented by Miles Jupp and written by James Kettle

Producer: Richard Morris
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