The News Quiz in the week following the standard Radio 4 broadcast. This version was also made available as a podcast. The News Quiz The News Quiz is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4. "The News Quiz" was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently, it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took (until 1995), and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in September 2006, who in turn was replaced by Miles Jupp in September 2015. The series was created by John Lloyd based on an idea from
Alan Coren one of the regular panellists on BBC Radio 4's new satirical quiz show, "The News Quiz". He continued on "The News Quiz" until the year he died. From 1996 to 2005 he was one of two team captains on the UK panel game "Call My Bluff". In 1978 he wrote "The Losers", an unsuccessful sitcom about a wrestling promoter starring Leonard Rossiter and Alfred Molina. Coren published about twenty books during his life, many of which were collections of his newspaper columns, such as "Golfing for Cats" and "The Cricklewood Diet". From 1976 to 1983 he wrote the "Arthur" series