A gleaming quartet of episodes from your humorous BBC Radio 4 quiz, chaired by Kilometers Jupp and Zoe Lyons

THE NEWS HEADLINES Quiz once more recruits the sharpest comedians and commentators to tear a strip off the headlines.Lining up to make satirical sense of current affairs are Hugo Rifkind, Andrew Maxwell, Simon Evans, Zoe Lyons, Andy Hamilton, Ayesha Hazarika, Tim Shipman, Lucy Porter, Frankie Boyle, Indicate Metal, Jen Brister, Helen Lewis, Katy Brand and Geoff Norcott.

Among the hot topics with this about THE NEWS HEADLINES Quiz: Best of 2019: The topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel display tumultuous year are the beleaguered Brexit deal; Theresa May’s resignation as well as the visit a fresh Conservative leader; a milkshake attack on Nigel Farage; the collapse of English Steel; human being composting in the us; fresh rulers for Brazil and Venezuela; fires in the Amazon; the proroguing of Parliament, and vicious seagulls.

The programme also pays tribute to much-missed News Quiz regular Jeremy Hardy.

Produced by Richard Morris (Program 1 & 4); Victoria Lloyd (Program 2 & 3)

A BBC Studios Creation

First broadcast in BBC Radio 4

Programme 1: 4 January 2019

Programme 2: 1 February 2019

Program 3: 24 May 2019

Program 4: 30 August 2019