The News Quiz 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 Nicholas Parsons. Originally "Private Eye" editor Richard Ingrams and "Punch" editor Alan Coren acted as team captains. It
Musical Chairs (1955 game show) not in competition with each other (in fact, collaborations between panelists were not uncommon). Viewers who submitted questions that stumped the panel were awarded 21-inch televisions from RCA, the parent company of NBC at the time. "Musical Chairs" disappeared from the airwaves after the airing of its eleventh episode on September 17. Host Bill Leyden moved on from his first television network program to the game show that established him as a household name in America for the latter half of the 1950s: "It Could Be You". Only one episode is known to exist – Episode #6 (August 13), featuring