Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The News Quiz: Ep8. Mr. Starmer Goes To Washington

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

Andy Zaltzman is joined by Scott Bennett, Sara Barron, Alex Massie and Lucy Porter for The News Quiz recorded from Scarborough. In the last of the current series, the panel unpack the Prime Minister's... Washington visit, aid cuts and defence pastes, silent albums and AI-generated essays.Written by Andy Zaltzman.With additional material by: Simon Alcock, David Duncan, Laura Major, Christina Riggs and Peter Tellouche. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc WillcoxA BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the bank. This sounds dangerous. It is. There was drugs. Ninditi. This goes all the way to the top. God, I've always wanted to say that. I need you to bury this body. Black Hots, all episodes now streaming on Hulu. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello. In a protest against the government's failure adequately to protect Britain's creative industries from the
Starting point is 00:00:48 ravining maw of artificial intelligence and tech companies, and in support of the 1,000 music artists who released an album of nothing to make this point, this week's news quiz will be entirely silent. Oh, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, Well, you spotted now, so we might as well do the show. If you're listening at home and want to take part in the protest, please turn your radio down to zero now. Right, I'm done with humans. Right, AI, if you're listening, which you are, help yourself to everything in this week's news quiz. Hello. Welcome to the news quiz.
Starting point is 00:01:17 And for the last episode of this series, we are in Scarborough in Yorkshire. Also known as God's Own Country, I believe. Be wary of suggesting that God has ever had anything to do with this place, if are you. Or in current form, a certain American president might threaten to kick you all out into Lancashire and turn the whole county into a casino and golf range.
Starting point is 00:01:46 Our teams for this Scarborough news quiz we have team Scarborough Fair versus team Rest of the World, really very unfair right now. On team Fair we have Lucy Porter and Times columnist Alex Massey. And on team Unfair we have Scott Bennett and Sarah Barron. On Team Unfair, we have Scott Bennett and Sarah Barron. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE This goes to Lucy and Alex, our first question. We'll start with a question about Yorkshire. Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, this week chose, for whatever reason, not to come to Yorkshire to speak to one of the many great people
Starting point is 00:02:18 from this county, but where, out of all the other places in the world, did he go instead and who is he meeting right now as we record? I believe he's gone to meet Donald Trump in the USA and everybody's been on tent hooks will they get on and I think they should because they've both spent a lot of time in court rooms. And obviously Keir Starmer being a barrister would have had to wear a ridiculous wig. I think in fairness to Keir Starmer it is a difficult position he's in because he's got to explain what's going on to someone who's got very little knowledge of British politics. But then he does practice every week with Kemi Bade.
Starting point is 00:02:59 No, I mean it's a very difficult situation for the Prime Minister. I mean he's sort of flattering Trump when he gave him this letter from the king, which apparently seems to have taken Trump by surprise. He sort of looked at it like a wee boy opening the best ever Christmas present. And Stammer said, this is really special, you know, Donald. It's never been done before, a second state visit to an American president.
Starting point is 00:03:20 These meetings in the White House are always very difficult for the junior power in the relationship. And I suspect this is the first time that a British Prime Minister has gone to Washington to visit the President of the United States and hopes beyond all possible hope that the President does not use the phrase special relationship. I suppose it's the killing with kindness route, isn't it, really? I mean, I sort of quite liked Macron. I watched Macron, the way he dealt with him. I don't know if you noticed, he let him sort of speak. And then he did that thing that my wife does quite a lot
Starting point is 00:03:50 when we're out. You know, when you're out and you're having a dinner party and you're thinking, I'm doing really well, and the feedback's gonna be good in the car on the way home, and then her hand will come out, I'll say, and it'll go down my shoulder, and I'm such a moron, I think it's affectionate. And it goes on, and then she'll squeeze.
Starting point is 00:04:12 He did the squeeze on Donald. He did the squeeze as if to say, come on, pal. We've all had a drink, you know. And then what my wife will do is just lean in and she'll just go, I think that's you done now. I think if he gets anything out of it, you know, go on, you know, he went in there, didn't he, giving the king away like he was a timeshare villa. You can have him in February, mate.
Starting point is 00:04:39 Macron had the advantage of being able to bamboozle Donald Trump by speaking French, of course, which is something denied to Keir Starmer. I mean, the Wall Street Journal suggested that Macron and Starmer were in a sort of competition to see who could be the best European Trump whisperer, which does rather sound like the sort of sordid activity that's probably illegal in most of the states that voted for Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:05:01 I was sort of watching this before we were coming on here, and I'm not saying Starmer is bending over backwards to accommodate Trump, but I am hearing he's pimping out Angela Rayner to take Melania for a mani-pedi and a nando. And I just think, you know, my advice to Trump, if you're interested, is we're so sort of enchanted by little British phrases like, toodle pip and tickety boo. I think you could try either of those or Bellend. I have sympathy for Stammerer as well, you know, in terms of the the King's State visit because whenever I travel abroad I'm always inviting people to come
Starting point is 00:05:36 around when they're in my country and I've never meant it even once. Yeah, when they turn up with the bags you're like, I was joking. I was joking, I was being nice. I don't want you in my home. I mean, it's very difficult talking with Trump and so on. Earlier today he was asked about his comments made by Vladimir Zelensky. You know, is Zelensky a dictator like you said he was? And Trump said, did I say that? I can't believe I would say that. You know, it's not straightforward negotiating with this sort of Alice in Wonderland, Bistro president.
Starting point is 00:06:04 You know, it's not straightforward negotiating with this sort of Alice in Wonderland Bisto president They've said today he's got bruises on his hands From vigorous handshaking he's done that many deals He's bruised the outside of his hand. I mean, how do you bruise the outside of your hand? He's slapping JD Vance every 20 minutes Do something. As we record, the meeting is still taking place. So we don't yet know exactly what agreements, disagreements, officially agreed mutual insults, obviously
Starting point is 00:06:33 insincere platitudes and soundbites will emerge. So I'm going to ask our panel, what do you think is going on in there right now? I think he's probably done the thing that I do with my husband where Stammer has rehearsed his, he's like, I'm going to go in the thing that I do with my husband where Stammer has rehearsed his he's like I'm gonna go in there and I'm gonna say to him right you back off mate right this is and then it's gonna turn out he's giving him Wales. I think we are gonna just have to decide what we're gonna
Starting point is 00:06:59 give him I mean that's it or Putin will get it so we've got it let's decide which bits of the country we're prepared. Lancashire. Lancashire. You said it not really, mate. Yes. I love the passion Yorkshire people have over some hills. But new evidence has emerged that actually Henry Tudor was offside at the Battle of Bosworth.
Starting point is 00:07:20 So actually, Richard III is technically still alive and king. In fact we've been running an AI summit predictor to use all the AI technologies to work out what is possibly going on in that summit. Apparently there is a 38% chance that Trump has made Stama crouch on all fours and then ridden him around like a rodeo bull. There's a 22% chance that Trump mistook Stama for a golf caddy. There's a 65% chance that Trump mistook Stama for a golf caddy. There's a 65% chance that Trump asked Stama if Mary Poppins is still alive, and if so, whether she's single. We will see what emerges from this.
Starting point is 00:07:57 So this is the Stama meeting with Trump. Now there are various do's and don'ts for what you're supposed to do that have been officially issued to all world leaders ahead of meeting Trump in these uncertain times. Don't pick him up on every single factual inaccuracy, or you may find that the decade has just run away with you. Try to avoid saying the words, yeah right, in a sarcastic tone more than three times in any meeting. If he starts rutting a piece of furniture, don't criticise him, it's just his nature. Hit him gently with a newspaper and praise him when he stops. He also claimed this week, Trump, that the EU was formed to screw America. It wasn't, we know that here.
Starting point is 00:08:41 It was formed to make sure carrots were all the same shape and size. Anyway, at the end of our first round, the scores are three points all. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Now, we talked last week about the increase in UK defence spending that, as we speak, has already seen work begin on a new nuclear-armed, nine-mile-high marble statue of Vera Lin flipping the bird towards Moscow on top of the white cliffs of Dover that should be finished within two weeks but what manifesto promise has the Labour government decided to put through its
Starting point is 00:09:12 overworked and probably already broken shredder to pay for the increased defense spending? They're gonna cut the aid budget but I mean it sounds a lot this money that we're spending on on defense 2.5% of GDP, but with the current state of energy costs and inflation I've done a few calculations and I've worked out that it's going to be about £32.50, which is a down payment on two rivets on an aircraft carrier. So yeah, it is one of those things. We're going to start, we're going to not help people who are flood victims and starving. We're just going to build weapons.
Starting point is 00:09:49 I think if you need more money, I've heard really good things about manifesting. I think there's a, do you know that the MP who was done for brawling, I think Starmer should get him in the UFC. I mean, obviously it's, you know, it's difficult to find the money for these things with growth not responding to the repeated sacrifices of oxen and principles to our national economic gods and with public spending of Paddington Bear. It is a difficult question. Where do you find money for this increased defence spending? Obviously one of the possibilities, I guess, because it's a budget from 0.5 to 0.3% is just to try to find some added percents. Why can't we only use 100 of the percent. Of course there is one obvious place for finding the
Starting point is 00:10:46 money, pensioners. You know the triple lock is unsustainable as everybody knows and the patriotic thing for pensioners to do would be to say we will give up our limited triple lock years that we have left and use the money to protect our grandchildren. I think there's an army of militant pensioners to be tapped into. I really do. I've told my daddy, should join just up oil, gets a free IVs, daytime hours, walks slowly and aimlessly whilst annoying people behind you. They do that in the Lidl. What if they started sending Royal Marines into wishing wells to retrieve coins?
Starting point is 00:11:26 It's that kind of lateral thinking that we need in this country, Sarah. What's the old saying goes, look after the pennies, then the billions of public expenditure will look after themselves. I think we should all do OnlyFans. It's the right time. I got off, someone asked me if I would send pictures of my feet, which, if you saw my feet, is ridiculous. They're horrific. They're a wrong shade. I've got face for the radio and feet for silent witness.
Starting point is 00:11:57 That's the way they are. APPLAUSE Someone... I put a picture of an holiday I was on and someone asked if I've sent pictures on my feet and I told my wife and she said no listen that's the final, once you've done that your dignity's gone and then I said it was 200 quid and she said get your socks off. I don't want to be alarmist about this but while this meeting between Stammer and Trump has gone on it's got a message on my computer saying due to a time zone change we're setting your time on your computer to Eastern Time USA so I don't know what Keir
Starting point is 00:12:36 Stammer has given away. Someone look out the window see if we're gradually moving out into the Atlantic. In terms of foreign aid politically, I mean it always seems to be, you know, when they're looking for cuts to be made, the first injured baby wildebeest cut off from the herd to be popped into the maw of the always peckish lion of budget cuts. And I've seen it described as a luxury we can no longer afford and also a crucial investment in the future in an uncertain changing world. Alex, politically it always seems to be something that's squabbled about in various... A lot of it is deeply fraudulent as well in as much as spending on asylum seekers in the UK is budgeted for the Department of International Development in the same way as this increase on defence spending and so on. Part of that is going to be taken up with money spent on MI5 and MI6, which historically has been in a separate pot. What actually counts as foreign aid? I mean, it's not all actually spent on help for people suffering from famine or natural
Starting point is 00:13:35 disasters in the developing world. Quite a lot of it is actually spent in the UK. That's the bit which won't be cut, of course. They said in the manifesto didn't they? They promised to restore foreign aid to 0.7% as soon as fiscal circumstances allow. And you just think whoever remembered to put that in the manifesto is getting a knighthood aren't they? We're all gonna borrow that, I'm gonna be like yes kids we're getting a PlayStation as soon as fiscal circumstances allow. I mean it will take foreign aid spending back to where it was when Labour were last in government, actually, around 0.3%, 0.4% of GDP. So if it does turn out that foreign aid is a luxury,
Starting point is 00:14:12 we can no longer afford. Well, no shame in joining an impressive list of luxury relics from a naive and bygone age that we can no longer afford, including affordable trains, funding for the arts, sporting state schools, road surfaces that don't spontaneously open up a direct portal into the bowels of hell, dignity for the old, long-term planning, our national saint-based anti-dragon defence system, which has been sadly allowed to wither over the last 1,500 years or so,
Starting point is 00:14:37 as well as nuanced hope and public toilets. So quite a lot that we've got rid of. APPLAUSE So the scores at the end of that round are five to Sarah and Scott and three to Lucy and Alex. I want to talk to you about an undercover mission. I need two officers to infiltrate a gang dealing drugs. Hate to break it to you, Clinton, but we ain't street.
Starting point is 00:15:05 We're just doing a spot drug dealing now. You got this? Take this shit off the bank. This sounds dangerous. It is. There was drugs, nudity. This goes all the way to the top. God, I've always wanted to say that.
Starting point is 00:15:20 I need you to bury this body. Black Ops, all episodes now streaming on Hulu. Lucy and Alex, a campaign has been launched supported by the publishers of the Scarborough News to highlight that other local papers are, actually they're probably not available are they? To highlight the dangers of the creative industries of AI and concerns around the government's impending legislation around it, can you complete the name of the campaign? Make it.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Make it stop. That's just what I always say. No, it's make it fair. Which is a very toddler kind. Make it fair. You're not my real mum. Yeah, so there were lots of newspapers kind of supporting it in different ways. The front page of the Huddersfield
Starting point is 00:16:09 Examiner was blank, which I mean... No news in Huddersfield. Hold the front page. And there's been, there was an album released, a silent album called is this what we want which people like Kate Bush, Jamiroquai, Annie Lennox, Pet Shop Boys, Billy Ocean you don't hear much from him these days and indeed you don't hear much from him on this album. Do you guys think Fana was excluded because he insisted on singing well tonight thank God it's them instead of you? sit down singing, well tonight, thank God, it's them instead of you. The weird thing is, is that AI has probably been trained on this very broadcast. And I think it's here, I think it's going to change everything, technology, so like
Starting point is 00:16:57 it will change comedy, so I fully expect that someone will come on here as a panelist and they'll do a joke and it will fall flat and then they'll stop the recording to consult VAR. And everyone will have to sit here and they'll go, wait, wait, funny. And AI does have some work to do. I mean, I saw a thing this week where somebody had asked Google, is tripe kosher? And Google came back with the reply, well it depends what religion your cow is. I think I had, is tripe kosher as a review of one of my Edinburgh shows one year ago.
Starting point is 00:17:37 Sorry about that Andy. I mean you know I fear our AI future but I think in a way it would be good if AI was trained on British people more, because I think it's been trained a lot on Americans, so AI has a very can-do attitude. And it might come for our jobs, whereas I think if it was British trained AI, it'd be like, I can't be arsed, to be honest. Because now you put something into AI, you go, oh, can you give me a picture of, I don't know, Simon Cowell in a bubble bath with Princess Diana in space?
Starting point is 00:18:06 And the AI is like, yeah, great, coming up. Whereas if you did that with British AI, it'd be like, why do you want that, you pervert? Well, it's really... I'll tell you what it'd be like. It'd be like asking someone for help in B&Q on a Saturday. The album is entitled, Is This What We Want? What do you think the answer to that question is?
Starting point is 00:18:27 This is what I want, if it becomes the cool thing for teenagers to listen to on their phone speakers on the bus. It's the, well, the latest in our exciting battle as we move towards the utopian age when AI and robots have taken over all the mundane work and all the non-mundane work and all the everything else. And we humble humans can spend all that bonus extra free time sitting on a secluded bench wondering what happened to the world we once loved.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Obviously, for some national newspapers, there is concern that AI is already sufficiently advanced that it could quite convincingly write a column blaming, for example, global warming on young trans people, or the war in South Sudan on young trans people, or the cost of private care homes on young trans people or the war in South Sudan on young trans people or the cost of private care homes on young trans people rendering many journalists completely obsolete. Concerns have also been raised across the media and creative industries from music and comedy to local and national newspapers to visual arts to people who make genuine
Starting point is 00:19:20 propaganda videos for deranged despots. how are they going to make a living? On a related issue, 88% of students in the UK are doing what these days? Ghosting the other 12%. Is it building pyramids of beer cans in their windows? They don't drink anymore, they eat ramen and self-diagnose. That's a night in. That's why STDs have declined because you don't end up with chlamydia after a night on the caramel lattes. They're using AI for their assignments, aren't they, which is interesting because I would have. I was wondering because I was thinking about the 12% who aren't using it and I was like I wonder if was thinking about the 12% who aren't using it, and I was like, I wonder if that's like the mature students who can't figure out how to work.
Starting point is 00:20:06 So it's the people who get defeated by the fire hydrant on a capture system, isn't it? Those people just going, I think I'm a robot because I can't get through this. Those people. Yeah, there's no need to be honest anymore, is there? It's such an outdated concept. Integrity, for God's sake. Knowledge for its own sake. Because my kids, I'm like, well you can cheat and you can use AI to do your homework but you're making yourself more stupid and they're fine with that.
Starting point is 00:20:42 Yes, according to the survey, eight out of nine students are using AI in their assessments. The survey also found that six out of ten AI bots would prefer to be used either to make AI artworks of dogs on jet skis or to destroy meaningful human life as soon as possible and 11 out of 10 AI bots would prefer to redefine the boundaries of mathematics. redefine the boundaries of mathematics. Well let's move on, well I guess to another related story. We talked last week about the Ukraine situation ahead of a deal with Ukraine, is it with right or against, I forget, for access to its minerals. Donald Trump said we want to get our what back?
Starting point is 00:21:23 Sexy. He wants his money back. Correct. Trump said, we want to get our what back? Sexy. He wants his money back. Correct. I mean, it is sort of strange tactics. It does feel like he's gone full Tony Soprano. It feels a little bit extortion, because in the space of a week, he's called Zelensky dictator, blamed him for the invasion of his own country, and now wants half of his stuff.
Starting point is 00:21:42 It's like the fastest divorce settlement. I mean, Zelensky's got no security guarantees, but he can visit his minerals on the weekend. Take the lithium to McDonald's, you know. Why is he so obsessed with minerals and replenishing minerals? Like, I know that's important after a bout of diarrhea, but that's not what this is. It's the rare earth minerals that he wants and the fact that they're rare. The problem is that of course is it's not actually entirely clear whether Ukraine has substantial reserves or deposits of rare earth minerals and Zelensky may possibly have out-negotiated the great master of the deal. In as much as
Starting point is 00:22:22 initially Trump was sort of saying you well, the United States wants its money back. It wants $500 billion from Ukraine and 50% at least of the mineral profits in perpetuity. And the $500 billion appears to have been dropped, which suggests that Trump may not actually get very much at all, especially if there aren't any rare earth minerals. Won't that be brilliant, like a really depressing edition of Time Team?
Starting point is 00:22:47 They just dig down and it's just one little bit of pottery that was bought at a car boot in 1997. Putin's now offering a counter offer, isn't he? So he's offering minerals in territories he's just occupied, which I think is a proper move. That's the equivalent of me trying to sell my mum and dad's house while they're still sat in the conservatory watching Tipping Point. Basically he wants a refund for America's military aid to Ukraine. That seems to be essentially what he's... Yeah, most of which was spent in money given to American arms companies, of course,
Starting point is 00:23:26 and so has never left the United States. So... APPLAUSE But it does, again, highlight the transactional nature of Trumpist politics, rather than it being just, you know, that America intervened because it had a sort of moral obligation. And for our younger listeners, a moral obligation was an idea from the past, in which people used to think they should do something just because it was the right thing I was a point what's learning out and whittle a stick it's kind of fun but
Starting point is 00:23:52 has no real political commercial application anymore we're better off moving on from it yeah what Trump said we are taking what we're entitled to take and as always with such negotiations and deals the devil will be in the detail if the devil can be persuaded Take some time off from giggling about how easy his job has become these days It mostly just works from home doing admin and watching YouTube videos barely needs to get out and recruit anymore Set to be quite an awkward meeting between Trump and Zelensky from the only last week Trump called Zelensky a Dictator and blamed him for starting the war to be fair to Trump. He has been consistent
Starting point is 00:24:24 He then went on a history podcast and complained that Abraham Lincoln got blood all over John Wilkes Booth's lovely clean bullet. Right for our final round now with the scores tied at nine points all we have a special Yorkshire or the world round. Our panellists can choose a question from Yorkshire or a question from the rest of the world. Gorgeous, glorious Yorkshire please. In what renowned European country, the northern part of which is on the same latitude as Yorkshire, did things go very right at an election making some people ask how did things go so terribly wrong? I think I know the answer to this one. I think this is the German election. Yes it is correct. Which was won by the CDU,
Starting point is 00:25:10 CSU, mainstream conservative party in Germany but most attention went to the people who came second which is the alternative for Deutschland. Well that's it isn't it? I mean Germany's been completely reinventing itself over the last 80 years. You know it's like oh you know very green, we're really into recycling, you know, if you recycle enough you will recycle some ideas from the 1930s, clearly. That's what's shocking, it's like the looking going, if only there was some sort of omen that this might be a bad idea. It's like those people, you know, climb Everest and then they pass dead bodies on the way up, but they keep going.
Starting point is 00:25:45 You've got the clues are there. Friedrich Merz said that Europe is facing its five to midnight moment, which sounds very dramatic but I didn't really understand it. I was like, I quite like five to midnight. That's normally when I'm doing my wordle. The co-leader Alice Fidel hinted that Elon Musk had rang her to congratulate her, which was just such a weird flex. It was like she was 16. It's like, oh, Elon, slid into my DMs. I say DMs, I mean, jackboots. boots. There's some great names in the the AFD they've got Beatrix von Stuch and Dirk Spaniel. They all sound like sort of evil Sylvania families or something else.
Starting point is 00:26:37 Yes, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union is set to become new Chancellor of Germany, the head of a coalition government that will not involve the surging far-right AFD, who won 21% of the votes, which is only a concern if, for example, you have an even basic knowledge of 20th century history. Otherwise, no biggie. Departing Chancellor Olaf Scholz saw his party's vote share collapse like a prim Victorian lady at the unexpected sight of a gentleman's whipsicle to just 16%. Finally, Yorkshire or the world? Yorkshire. Yorkshire is well known to contain both restaurants and funeral parlours.
Starting point is 00:27:15 So too does China. But why this week in China has the line between restaurants and funeral parlours becoming unusually blurred? One of the best stories ever. So there's a funeral parlour in China in which the food is so good that people are pretending that they're burying their dead relatives in order to just come and get these amazing noodles. I mean the food at British funerals, I mean at my dad's funeral we had meat paste sandwiches. I was like I wish I'd gone really instead. But yeah it just sounds amazing. So someone put on whatever the Chinese TikTok thing is, they said I'm at someone's funeral, oh my god the food's amazing and then people started queuing around the block pretending they were at
Starting point is 00:28:04 funerals And apparently it's a special blend of 11 herbs and embalming fluid I just thought that I bet their fortune cookies are bleak. I Think we should have cremation and crispy dumplings Even thought of what they could call it. It's what Nana would have wantoned. Right, well, that means our final scores are 11 to Sarah and Scott, 13 to Lucy and Alex. Thank you for listening. We'll be back in a few weeks. Goodbye.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Taking part in the new scores were Scott Bennett, Lucy Porter, Sarah Barron and Alex Massey. In the chair was me, Andy Zoltzman. An additional material was written by Peter Toulouse, Cameron Locksdale, Ali Panting and Alfie Packham. The producer was Rajiv Kauria and it was the BBC Studios' audio production for Radio 4. Hello, I'm Robin Ince. And I'm Brian Cox and we would like to tell you about the new series of The Infinite Monkey Coach. In this series we're going to have a planet off. We decided it was time to go cosmic so we are going to do Jupiter vs. Sefton.
Starting point is 00:29:23 Well it's very well done that because in the script it does say in square brackets wrestling voice question mark. And once we touch back down on this planet we're going to go deep. Really deep. Yes, we're journeying to the centre of the Earth with guests Phil Wang, Chris Jackson and Anna Ferreira. And after all of that intense heat and pressure we're just going to kind of chill out a bit and talk about ice. And also in this series, we're discussing altruism.
Starting point is 00:29:50 We'll find out what it is. Exploring the history of music, recording with Brian Eno and looking at nature's shapes. So if that sounds like your kind of thing, you can listen to the Infinite Monkey Cage first on BBC Sounds. first on BBC Sounds. MUSIC TONE I want to talk to you about an undercover mission.
Starting point is 00:30:10 I need two officers to infiltrate a gang dealing drugs. Hate to break it to you, Clinton, but we ain't street. We're just doing a spot drug dealing. Oh! You got this. What? Take this shit off the bank. This sounds dangerous. It is. There was drugs. Nudity. This goes Take this shit off the bank. This sounds dangerous. It is. There was drugs.
Starting point is 00:30:27 Nudity. This goes all the way to the top. God, I've always wanted to say that. I need you to bury this body. Aaaaaaah! Black Ops. All episodes now streaming on Hulu.

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