In The News This Week (the Have I Got News For You podcast) Podcast
1) Arousing Archers, Transport Tidings & The Sausage Bandit
Producer Diggory steps in to reveal the heartwarming details of Buckinghamshire’s newest school – built in a millionaire’s garden before Queenie reports on the sausagey mystery gripping Bristol’s loca...Show More
2) Carpet Museums, Terrifying Mascots & Old-Old-Old Rice
Mike reveals why Zack Polanski didn’t appear as scheduled on the TV show this week before delivering the sad news that the Kidderminster Carpet Museum will be closing its doors. Next, Queenie report...Show More
3) Footballing Nuns, Batmen for Justice & George the Parrot
Producer Diggory returns to the podcast to sift through listener comments on Spotify before Emerald leads one of her famed Odd One Out rounds, this time featuring Batman, a footballing nun and robots ...Show More
4) Celebrity friends, ‘Quirky’ Driving Habits & Piggy Tourists
After receiving messages from several Scottish football fans, Mike apologises for his comments about their World Cup qualification prospects from last week, before taking us through the story of Mark ...Show More
5) Quirky Side Hustles, Vending Machines & Genius Dogs
The team chat about where the TV show was last Friday before Jack takes us through Tesco Mobiles poll of 1400 people with ‘quirky side hustles’ – some are legit, others less legit and the rest are tot...Show More
6) Peppa Pig Syndrome, True Gentlemen & Jackie Potatoes
The team briefly touch on Kim Kardashian’s new, critically panned TV show All’s Fair and The Traitors finale, before Jack (eventually) explains what 'Peppa Pig Syndrome' is whilst unpacking a Times su...Show More
7) Political Panto, Sponsor-A-Mouse & Snail Box Farms
Mike sends in a voice note with some juicy behind-the-scenes insight from the TV show, after the recording was interrupted by the breaking Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor news. The team then discuss the st...Show More
8) Toilet Bats, Banned Black Cats & "You Can't Do That?!"
Mike gives the team an exclusive preview of what to expect from Friday’s Halloween episode of Have I Got News for You, before they wrestle with another tricky Odd One Out from Emerald - featuring a UK...Show More
9) Anti-Aging Studies, Smelly Stamps & Apathetic Aliens
Mike returns to the pod to reveal some top behind the scenes treats from working on the TV show before the team discuss the papers’ obsession with anti-aging studies, the UK’s newest pothole filling v...Show More
10) AI Friends, Porridge Champions & Clairvoyant Cats
The team discuss how one in five Brits see their AI companions as ‘friends’, the takeaways from the world porridge making championships and Emerald’s Trump-themed ‘Metal Matrix’ game… Later, they ch...Show More