{"podcast":{"title":"Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4","slug":"friday-night-comedy-from-bbc-radio-4-160413","podcast_index_feed_id":160413,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02pc9pj.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9pj","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0lbr5kr.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":259,"summary":"Topical comedy from the sharpest satirical minds in the business. Listen first on BBC Sounds, every Friday. Is the news driving you up the wall? You’re not alone. Let the comedians take the strain and work out what’s been funny this week. Features BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, The Naked Week and Too Long; Didn’t Read. Listen on BBC Sounds, seven days earlier than anywhere else, and subscribe to make sure that you don’t miss an episode.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/friday-night-comedy-from-bbc-radio-4-160413"},"episode":{"title":"The News Quiz: Ep2. The art of vetting","slug":"the-news-quiz-ep2-the-art-of-vetting","published_at":"2026-05-01T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/friday-night-comedy-from-bbc-radio-4-160413/the-news-quiz-ep2-the-art-of-vetting","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/friday-night-comedy-from-bbc-radio-4-160413","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ngg0p5","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0ngg347.mp3","summary":"Some hot topics of conversation this week include the ever evolving Peter Mandelson vetting saga, phones being banned in schools and robots who can take over the world... sorry robots who can take over sports. Helping Andy make sense of it all are Daliso Chaponda, Catherine Bohart, Hugo Rifkind and Ria Lina. Written by Andy Zaltzman. With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Christina Riggs, Henry Whaley and Angela Channell Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinators: Asha Osborne-Grinter & Caroline Barlow Sound Editor: Marc Willcox A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.","meta_description":"Some hot topics of conversation this week include the ever evolving Peter Mandelson vetting saga, phones being banned in schools and robots who can take o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1693,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/friday-night-comedy-from-bbc-radio-4-160413/episodes/the-news-quiz-ep2-the-art-of-vetting/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/friday-night-comedy-from-bbc-radio-4-160413/the-news-quiz-ep2-the-art-of-vetting.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}