Friday Night Comedy from 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Podcast
The best topical comedy from 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4, every Friday. Features The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, The Naked Week and Too Long; Didn鈥檛 Read. Listen first on 蜜芽传媒 Sounds.
Is the news driving you up the wall? You鈥檙e not alone. Let the comedians take the strain and work out what鈥檚 been funny this week.
Topical comedy from the sharpest satirical minds in the business with 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4鈥檚 The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, The Naked Week and Too Long; Didn鈥檛 Read.
Listen first on 蜜芽传媒 Sounds every Friday, seven days earlier than anywhere else, and subscribe to make sure that you don鈥檛 miss an episode.
Episodes to download
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The News Quiz: Ep 8. Musk and Trump Break Up
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Glenn Moore and Felicity Ward join Andy Zaltzman for another episode of the News Quiz.
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The News Quiz: Ep 7. Tariff Turmoil
Fri 30 May 2025
Armando Iannucci, Ria Lina, Ian Smith and Cindy Yu join host Andy Zaltzman.
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The News Quiz: Ep 6. Big Deals
Fri 23 May 2025
Andrew Maxwell and Ian Smith join host Andy Zaltzman for the topical quiz.
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The News Quiz: Ep 5. An Island of Strangers
Fri 16 May 2025
Alasdair Beckett-King and Sara Barron join host Andy Zaltzman for the topical quiz.
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The News Quiz: Ep 4. Conclave Concluded
Fri 9 May 2025
Geoff Norcott and Ria Lina join host Andy Zaltzman for the topical panel quiz show.
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The News Quiz: Ep 3. Power Outrage
Fri 2 May 2025
Ed Byrne and Lucy Porter join host Andy Zaltzman for the topical panel quiz show.
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The News Quiz: Ep 2. Elections (Local and Papal)
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Pierre Novellie and Andrew Maxwell join Andy Zaltzman for the topical panel quiz show.
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The News Quiz: Ep 1. Space, Steel and Strikes
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Mark Steel and Zoe Lyons join host Andy Zaltzman for the topical panel quiz show.
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The Naked Week: Ep6. Tariffs, Theme Parks, and Twister.
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Death of globalisation and a tour of Keir's new theme park.
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The Naked Week: Ep5. Tariffic Trump retaliation, and Woop Woop - it's the sound of the Thought Police.
Fri 4 Apr 2025
We plot 'tariffic' Trump retaliation, and go Woop Woop at the sound of the Thought Police
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The Naked Week: Ep4. Performing, Potholes, and Paddington.
Fri 28 Mar 2025
This week, the team help Rachel Reeves with her Spring Statement, and fall in a hole.
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The Naked Week: Ep 3. Benefits, Borders, and a game of Truss or Towers.
Fri 21 Mar 2025
We get our benefits cut, ride a Liz Truss rollercoaster, and declare war on The Archers.
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The Naked Week: Ep 2. Brick Walls, Dead Wood, and Charlie.
Fri 14 Mar 2025
We mourn Reform, carve a wooden Starmer, and listen in on Prince Andrew's playlist.
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The Naked Week: Ep 1. Oval arguments, awful algorithms, and a game of Top (Donald) Trumps.
Fri 7 Mar 2025
We give up our minerals, fail to wear a suit, and attempt to radicalise some children.
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The News Quiz: Ep8. Mr. Starmer Goes To Washington
Fri 28 Feb 2025
Scott Bennett and Lucy Porter join host Andy Zaltzman for the topical panel quiz show.
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The News Quiz: Ep7. Lying and Reassurance
Fri 21 Feb 2025
Ian Smith and Zoe Lyons join host Andy Zaltzman for the topical panel quiz show.
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The News Quiz: Ep6. Corruption Leagues and Leaked WhatsApps
Fri 14 Feb 2025
Topical panel quiz show, taking its questions from the week's news stories.
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The News Quiz: Ep5. Tariffs, Tabloids and Typewriters
Fri 7 Feb 2025
Topical panel quiz show, taking its questions from the week's news stories.
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The News Quiz: Ep 4. Gear shifting and Shoplifting
Fri 31 Jan 2025
Andy Zaltzman hosts the topical quiz show, unpicking the week's news stories.
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The News Quiz: Ep 3. The Donald and The Dons
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Andy Zaltzman hosts the topical quiz show, unpicking the week's news stories.
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The News Quiz: Ep 2. Unconditional Discharge In Charge
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Andy Zaltzman hosts the topical panel quiz show.
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The News Quiz: Ep 1. Checked Facts & Unfettered Fictions
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Andy Zaltzman returns for a new series of the topical panel quiz show.
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Best of The News Quiz 2024
Fri 3 Jan 2025
A satirical smorgasbord of the show鈥檚 best bits of the year.
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The Naked Christmas Week: Books, Trump, and When Is Bins?
Fri 27 Dec 2024
The Naked Week team sticks its hand into Christmas and pulls out a bag of news-giblets.
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The Naked Week: Ep4: Spies, Uncanny Ghosts, and Christmas Crackers
Fri 20 Dec 2024
We recruit a spy, and try to contact Nigel Farage with a ouija board.
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The Naked Week: Ep 3. Prisons, Syria, and Kemi's Catchphrase.
Fri 13 Dec 2024
We invade Nuneaton, and shout statistics at a dog.
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The Naked Week: Ep2. Spin, Milestones, and Monopoly (Qatar edition)
Fri 6 Dec 2024
Stop talking and start apologising, plus the shortest game of Monopoly ever.
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The Naked Week: Ep1. Lobbying, art, soup, and farms
Fri 29 Nov 2024
We become landowners and throw art at soup.
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Dead Ringers: Ep4. Revolting Farmers
Fri 22 Nov 2024
Jeremy Clarkson and Nigel Farage weigh in on the new land tax & Donald Trump talks turkey.
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Dead Ringers: Ep 3. New World Disorder
Fri 15 Nov 2024
Donald Trump makes some surprising new additions to his team.
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