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The News Quiz: Ep 2. Team Vibes vs Team Bribes
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Answering the big questions of the week are Mark Steel, Celya AB, Zoe Lyons and Hugo Rifkind. Who's allegedly not been listening properly during a work meeting? How did thieves manage to lose two Renoir paintings almost immediately? And which Harry definitely isn't getting his old job back? Written by Andy Zaltzman. With additional material by: Catherine Brinkworth, Adrian Gray, Ruth Husko and Claire Rammelkamp Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu Sound Editor: Jerry Peal Recorded by David Thomas at The Glee Club in Birmingham A BBC...
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Before we start this week's news quiz we would like to check whether all humanity has already been wiped out by AI. Experts have suggested this may well happen, we thought we'd make sure it hasn't already
happened before we start the show. So I'm going to ask you in the audience here in Birmingham please answer as honestly as possible. Do you still exist? Yes. Are you all AI bots? No. Are you sure? Yes. That's good enough for me. Welcome to the news quiz. Hello, I'm Andy Zoltz and this week we are recording here in Venice, Birmingham.
I'm sorry, I'm always getting those two mixed up, one for the canal fans there. Our teams in a week in which the government in the UK tried to find ways to boost the economy despite no money being available and in which Donald Trump offered $5,000 to every adult American citizen ahead of his midterm elections, we have Team Vibes against Team Bribes.
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