Hope this answers your question and possibly any others too? (taken from this website...http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/The_News_Quiz) === === It was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman Barry Norman

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as chairman. Subsequently it was chaired by Simon Hoggart Simon Hoggart

Simon David Hoggart is an United Kingdom journalist and Presenter. He writes on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for the Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on Radio 4....

, Barry Took Barry Took

Barry Took was an England comedian, writer and television presenter. He is best remembered in the UK for his weekly role as presenter of Points of View, a BBC TV programme in which viewers' letters criticising or praising the BBC were broadcast....

(until 1995), and then again by Simon Hoggart Simon Hoggart

Simon David Hoggart is an United Kingdom journalist and Presenter. He writes on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for the Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on Radio 4....

until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig Sandi Toksvig

Sandi Toksvig is a Denmark-born England comedienne, author and presenter on radio presenter and television presenter....

in September 2006. The series was created by John Lloyd John Lloyd (writer)

John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is a United Kingdom comedy writer and television producer. He is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd....

Originally Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams Richard Ingrams

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and Punch editor Alan Coren Alan Coren

Alan Coren was an England List of humorists, writer and satire who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff....

acted as team captains.

It was adapted for television Television

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in 1981 under the title Scoop, running for two seasons, and later inspired the television programme Have I Got News For You Have I Got News for You

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The programme is usually recorded in front of a live audience on a Thursday evening at the BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House Broadcasting House

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in central London Central London

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. It is then edited, broadcast first on Friday evening, then repeated on the Saturday lunchtime.

Each week, four panellists appear on the show. They are usually either comedian Comedian

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s or journalists, and sometimes politicians. Journalists predominated in the early years.

The Danish-born comedienne Sandi Toksvig Sandi Toksvig

Sandi Toksvig is a Denmark-born England comedienne, author and presenter on radio presenter and television presenter....

took up the chairman's role in the sixtieth series (the show broadcasts three series per year), which began on 8 September 2006.

* Barry Norman Barry Norman

Barry Leslie Norman, Order of the British Empire is an England film critic and television presenter. He has also written several novels....

* Simon Hoggart Simon Hoggart

Simon David Hoggart is an United Kingdom journalist and Presenter. He writes on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for the Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on Radio 4....

(chairman during two periods) * Barry Took Barry Took

* Simon Evans Simon Evans

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* Jeremy Hardy Jeremy Hardy

Jeremy Hardy is an England alternative comedy comedian. Born in Farnborough, Hampshire, near Aldershot in Hampshire, he attended Farnham College but now lives in Balham, London....

* Andy Hamilton Andy Hamilton

Andrew Neil Hamilton is a United Kingdom comedian, game show panellist, television director, and comedy scriptwriter for television and radio....

* Armando Iannucci Armando Iannucci

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* Phill Jupitus Phill Jupitus

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* Fred MacAulay Fred MacAulay

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* Sue Perkins Sue Perkins

Susan Elizabeth Perkins , more commonly known as Sue Perkins, is an England radio and television presenter, actor, and writer....

* Carrie Quinlan Carrie Quinlan

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* Mark Steel Mark Steel

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* Francis Wheen Francis Wheen

Francis James Baird Wheen is a United Kingdom journalist, writer and broadcaster....

* Alan Coren Alan Coren

Alan Coren was an England List of humorists, writer and satire who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff....

* Ian Hislop Ian Hislop

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* Simon Hoggart Simon Hoggart

Simon David Hoggart is an United Kingdom journalist and Presenter. He writes on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for the Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on Radio 4....

* Richard Ingrams Richard Ingrams

Richard Ingrams was a co-founder and second editor of the British satire magazine Private Eye , taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963....

* Linda Smith Linda Smith (comedian)

Linda Helen Smith was an England stand-up comedy and comedy writer. She was born in Erith in Kent and was a regular BBC Radio 4 panelist, being voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002....

* Sandi Toksvig Sandi Toksvig

Sandi Toksvig is a Denmark-born England comedienne, author and presenter on radio presenter and television presenter....

* Barry Took Barry Took

Includes panellists that have appeared on several occasions over many years, and those who have only appeared once.

* Kate Adie Kate Adie

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* Clive Anderson Clive Anderson

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* Jo Brand Jo Brand

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* Peter Cook Peter Cook

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* Barry Cryer Barry Cryer

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* Jack Dee Jack Dee

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* Justin Edwards Justin Edwards

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* Rebecca Front Rebecca Front

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* Stephen Fry Stephen Fry

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* Fi Glover Fi Glover

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* Jeff Green Jeff Green (comedian)

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* Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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* Phil Hammond Phil Hammond (comedian)

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* Roy Hattersley Roy Hattersley

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* Tony Hawks Tony Hawks

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* Susan Jeffreys * Boris Johnson Boris Johnson

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* Stanley Johnson Stanley Johnson

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* Phill Jupitus Phill Jupitus

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* Charles Kennedy Charles Kennedy

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* Mark Lawson Mark Lawson

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* Norman Lovett Norman Lovett

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* Greg Proops Greg Proops

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* Steve Punt Steve Punt

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* Hugo Rifkind Hugo Rifkind

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* Willie Rushton Willie Rushton

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* Moira Stuart Moira Stuart

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* Kirsty Wark Kirsty Wark

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The News Quiz also features considerable comedic input from regular BBC newsreaders (or "Hacks-neutral", as Alan Coren famously referred to them). Notable among the regulars are:

* Chris Aldridge Chris Aldridge

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* Carolyn Brown Carolyn Brown (newsreader)

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* Harriet Cass Harriet Cass

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* Corrie Corfield Corrie Corfield

Corrie Corfield is a BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer and newsreader.She grew up near Stratford-upon-Avon, and was educated at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she read English and Drama....

* Peter Donaldson Peter Donaldson

Peter Donaldson is a main news presenter on BBC Radio 4.He was born in Cairo, Egypt and moved to Cyprus in 1952 at the time of the overthrow of King Farouk....

* Charlotte Green Charlotte Green

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* Brian Perkins Brian Perkins

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Corrie Corfield did appear as a panellist once, when Sandi Toksvig was unable to attend. As a current BBC newsreader she was bound by the BBC's code of practice for newsreaders, which prevented her from making any opinionated comments on-air ("What do you think of Bush George W. Bush

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, Corrie?" "He...he is an American").

Peter Donaldson Peter Donaldson

Peter Donaldson is a main news presenter on BBC Radio 4.He was born in Cairo, Egypt and moved to Cyprus in 1952 at the time of the overthrow of King Farouk....

also appeared as a guest, in an episode broadcast in September 1999.

The opening title music is an arrangement of The Typewriter, by Leroy Anderson Leroy Anderson

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