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 Daily Quiz! celebrity guest ever featured on the show. On 19 May 2006, officers from the Fraud Squad raided the offices of Big Game TV, makers of "The Daily Quiz!", after a BBC Radio 4 investigation for the "You and Yours" programme found that receptionists were told to ignore all incoming calls for long periods of time while 150-200 calls per minute were clocked up at 75p a time. The charges were later dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service. Due to this raid, the show was removed from the schedules of ITV Play and Men & Motors]]. The Daily Quiz! returned as