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
The Identik-Hit Quiz in 1993 and became the new mid-morning host. He left Radio 1 in 2001 and now works for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Five Live. The Identik-Hit Quiz The Identik-Hit Quiz was a daily feature on the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show between 1988 and 1993, was hosted by Simon Mayo. The quiz ran initially at 6:40am - when the show began at 6:30am - then after the programme was extended to a 6am start, room was found for two rounds a day as the feature became one of the bigger audience pulls, so it was placed in a