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The News Quiz - 27th January

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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The Doomsday Clock Is Moving Closer to Midnight

We are now at the highest level of peril since it was launched in 1947. Even more than during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The clock has moved closer to midnight because of old Vlady Pootles, the Kremlin and a nuclear arsenal. If we are going to end the world, let it not be by accident or miscalculation if it's by intentional self-destruction. That kind of fits in with our overall human narrative. But what I do not want is the last words of our species to be whoops.

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