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The News Quiz is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4, [1] first broadcast in 1977. The show, created by John Lloyd from an idea by Nicholas Parsons, has seen several hosts, including Barry Norman, Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, and Miles Jupp.
Since 2016 he has been a statistician for BBC Radio's Test Match Special cricket commentaries, and since 2020 the presenter of Radio 4's The News Quiz. On television, in 2024, he won the eighteenth series of Taskmaster against Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee, and Rosie Jones.
This is a list of current and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4.. When it came into existence – on 30 September 1967 – Radio 4 inherited a great many continuing programme series which had been initiated prior to that date by its predecessor, the BBC Home Service (1939–1967), and in some cases even by stations which had preceded the Home Service.
The modern British panel show format of TV comedy quizzes started with Have I Got News for You, a loose adaptation of BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. HIGNFY , as the show is sometimes known, began airing in 1990, and has been the most-viewed show of the night, regularly attracting as much as a 20% audience share .
A six-part fourth series aired on BBC Radio 4 in August and September 2015. [18] He played the title character in BBC Radio 4 comedy Boswell's Lives (written by Jon Canter) which ran for four series, 2015–2018. Jupp appeared as a contestant on BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz in April 2012 (Series 77; Episode 1).
The Limited Power of Satire/Linda's Rise from Obscurity BBC Radio 4, The News Quiz, 7 September 2005 Linda Smith has her eye on the Chairman's seat BBC Radio 4 , The News Quiz , 6 February 2006 Interview with Jenny Colgan, containing tribute BBC Radio 4 , Woman's Hour , 1 March 2006
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His series Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar first aired on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. [15] He was a guest on the BBC comedy show Frankie Boyle's New World Order in June 2017 [16] In 2020, he hosted the first of 3 series of The News Quiz, with Angela Barnes and Andy Zaltzman hosting the other two series.