Talk:The News Quiz

message: Up until Sandi took over, the host was always referred to as the Chairman.  Sandi is referred to as the Chair. eg (from the credits at the end): "The Chair's scripts were written by..."
So, should she be listed as "Current Chair"? I believe so, as this is how she is called on the programme.  Besides, "Chair" is a valid description of the role. She has never been called the "Chairperson", so this description is invalid, I believe.
:If it makes any difference, I seem to remember that she publicly said that she said she was the "chairman" (despite being a woman) when talking on this subject, but you're right about the end credits. I haven't got a source for her saying she describes herself as the "chairman", so I reckon leaving it as "chair" is fair enough.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sven945 (talk • contribs) 14:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chairperson? Chair? Host?

message: Alan Coren's mention of Wikipedia has been included on the article about Wikipedia in culture. ISD 18:54, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alan Coren and Wikipedia

message: A new programme for Radio 4 Extra, featuring jokes that you won't have heard in this week's News Quiz, some clips from the archives and exclusive behind-the-scenes material. Should this not be included in the information of this programme.
This is played out on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Monday evenings, Tuesday mornings & Tuesday nights (early hours of Wednesday) following the original broadcast see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010m2mj 1701Will (talk) 16:16, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  News Quiz Extra 

message: Surely (as I recall from first listening to this in the late 1980s), the satirist John Wells was a regular on the same team as Richard Ingrams? They used to bumble through it to considerable effect, sounding like an old married couple a lot of the time. Ghughesarch (talk) 23:47, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Wells? 

message: Could we have a section about where The News Quiz is recorded and whether recording takes place before an audience? In my opinion, the laughter sometimes sounds fake; there are currently no recordings with tickets being advertised by BBC Studios, although that may be because it is too far ahead of the next recording date. I query if studio audiences have been suspended due to terrorist threats and/or due to political jokes coming across as 'biased' if too many people laugh at them. AndrewAfresh (talk) 19:03, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recording studio and audience presence 

message: This article could put in that the presenter normally reads a cutting that a listener has sent in at the start of the programme, at the start of Round Two and at the end of the programme. Vorbee (talk) 18:34, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Reading out news cuttings

message: This article has a list of hosts of the programme. It could also say that, starting on September 7 2019, guest hosts began to stand in for Miles Jupp, beginning with Simon Evans. Vorbee (talk) 07:48, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Guest hosts

message: Does the article really need to state that the music was increased in speed and pitch? I suspect the speed-up was originally achieved by playing the 33rpm record at 45rpm, so the pitch would naturally increase. Keeping the pitch the same when playing any recording at a different speed requires signal processing, which probably wouldn't have been possible in the 1970s. 86.139.25.170 (talk) 20:58, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music speed