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
The News Quiz 1999. Each week, the chair's script is written by three main writers, with material contributed by one or two additional writers. Current regular writers include: Former regular writers include: The opening title music is an arrangement of "The Typewriter", by Leroy Anderson played by The James Shepherd Versatile Brass. For the programme the original recording (on Decca records SB 314) has been increased in speed and pitch by about 33%. BBC MindGames Magazine regularly featured several BBC-linked puzzles, including "The News Quiz", a series of questions about the last month's more unlikely news. Issue 5 (November 2006) also included an