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The News Quiz - 27th May

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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The New Billionaire

Oxvam claims that over the last two years, a new billionaire has been created every 30 hours. As a species, the billionaire has a gestation period one thirteenth the length of that of a hampster. But it will take only, what, seven point eight billion times 30 hours, 26 point seven million years, for everyone in the world to day to be a billionaire. So just hanging there, everyone. At the end of that round, it's four points. Well, as i said, we are at the he literary festival. Let's find what is happening elsewhere in the festival. Outside this tentl looks like it's all kicking off between the nineteenth century romantic

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