Talk:The News Quiz

Chairperson? Chair? Host?
Up until Sandi took over, the host was always referred to as the Chairman. Sandi is referred to as the Chair. eg (from the credits at the end): "The Chair's scripts were written by..."

So, should she be listed as "Current Chair"? I believe so, as this is how she is called on the programme. Besides, "Chair" is a valid description of the role. She has never been called the "Chairperson", so this description is invalid, I believe.


 * If it makes any difference, I seem to remember that she publicly said that she said she was the "chairman" (despite being a woman) when talking on this subject, but you're right about the end credits. I haven't got a source for her saying she describes herself as the "chairman", so I reckon leaving it as "chair" is fair enough. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sven945 (talk • contribs) 14:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Alan Coren and Wikipedia
Alan Coren's mention of Wikipedia has been included on the article about Wikipedia in culture. ISD 18:54, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

News Quiz Extra
A new programme for Radio 4 Extra, featuring jokes that you won't have heard in this week's News Quiz, some clips from the archives and exclusive behind-the-scenes material. Should this not be included in the information of this programme. This is played out on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Monday evenings, Tuesday mornings & Tuesday nights (early hours of Wednesday) following the original broadcast see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010m2mj 1701Will (talk) 16:16, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

John Wells?
Surely (as I recall from first listening to this in the late 1980s), the satirist John Wells was a regular on the same team as Richard Ingrams? They used to bumble through it to considerable effect, sounding like an old married couple a lot of the time. Ghughesarch (talk) 23:47, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Recording studio and audience presence
Could we have a section about where The News Quiz is recorded and whether recording takes place before an audience? In my opinion, the laughter sometimes sounds fake; there are currently no recordings with tickets being advertised by BBC Studios, although that may be because it is too far ahead of the next recording date. I query if studio audiences have been suspended due to terrorist threats and/or due to political jokes coming across as 'biased' if too many people laugh at them. AndrewAfresh (talk) 19:03, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Reading out news cuttings
This article could put in that the presenter normally reads a cutting that a listener has sent in at the start of the programme, at the start of Round Two and at the end of the programme. Vorbee (talk) 18:34, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Guest hosts
This article has a list of hosts of the programme. It could also say that, starting on September 7 2019, guest hosts began to stand in for Miles Jupp, beginning with Simon Evans. Vorbee (talk) 07:48, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Music speed
Does the article really need to state that the music was increased in speed and pitch? I suspect the speed-up was originally achieved by playing the 33rpm record at 45rpm, so the pitch would naturally increase. Keeping the pitch the same when playing any recording at a different speed requires signal processing, which probably wouldn't have been possible in the 1970s. 86.139.25.170 (talk) 20:58, 25 May 2022 (UTC)