A headline-crunching celebration of Radio 4’s hugely successful topical humor quiz show

The News Quiz made its debut on Radio 4 in 1977, and four years afterwards it’s still playfully making and breaking the news of our day to day news.

Among the vintage gems with this collection are 25 Years of the news headlines Quiz, where Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, John Sergeant, Linda Smith and Francis Wheen take a trip through 25 % of a century of headline news, with Radio 4 newsreaders providing about The News Quiz: AN ANTIQUE Collection: Archive highlights from the favorite Radio 4 comedy cuttings (and giggles) from 1977 to 2002. Meanwhile The Archive Hour: Headlines, Deadlines and Punchlines, offered by Matthew Parris, features interviews with chairmen and panellists past and present including Barry Norman.

Also included are Barry Took and Simon Hoggart’s own selections of funniest moments from the 1980s towards the 2000s. The variety of guest players featured contains Clive Anderson, Joan Bakewell, Jo Brand, Rory Bremner, Peter Make, Edwina Currie, Nigel Dempster, Roy Hattersley, Tony Hawks, Jeremy Hardy, Ian Hislop, Richard Ingrams, Clive Wayne, Boris Johnson, Charles Kennedy, Kilometers Kington, Maureen Lipman, Stuart Maconie, Steve Punt, Willie Rushton, John Sergeant, Linda Smith, Tag Steel, Janet Street-Porter, Sandi Toksvig, John Wells and several, many more.

If you enjoy your information humorously grilled, using a aspect order of biting wit, this vintage collection is highly recommended.

Some of the humour upon this launch reflects the period in which it had been first broadcast.