- Genre
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast
- 2009 - 2017
- Channels
- BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Radio 7
- Episodes
- 97 (1 pilot + 16 series), plus 2 highlights specials
- Starring
- Angela Barnes, Nish Kumar, Romesh Ranganathan, Justin Edwards, Miles Jupp, Lewis Macleod, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Pippa Evans and others
- Writers
- Matthew Morton, Luke Catterson, James Kettle, Emma Payne, Mark Spiller, Alex Buchanan, Andy Flood, Tom Neenan and others
- Producers
- Ed Morrish, Carl Cooper, Arnab Chanda, Charlie Perkins, Lyndsay Fenner, Matt Stronge, Toby Tilling, Suzy Grant, Paul Sheehan, Tilusha Ghelani, Sam Michell, Simon Mayhew-Archer, Adnan Ahmed and Abby Kumar
Newsjack is a topical sketch show created by BBC Radio 7, now on BBC Radio 4 Extra. The show aims to get comic mileage from the news - political, cultural, sports, and trivia.
Originally hosted by Miles Jupp, then Justin Edwards, followed by Romesh Ranganathan, Nish Kumar, and now Angela Barnes, the tone is lively, satirical, and distinctly irreverent.
Notably, most of the sketches are written by members of the public, as the programme is happy to receive unsolicited material. For example, the production team revealed that for Series 7 they were reading 450 emails a week, and broadcast the work of 123 different writers.
Newsjack writing alumni include James Kettle, now writing on a variety of Radio 4 shows including It's Not What You Know; Eddie Robson, whose has created sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully; and Tom Neenan, who went on to become one of BBC Radio Comedy's bursary writers.
Nish Kumar's tips
To find out more about how to write for the show see the Newsjack website
Angela Barnes has written a helpful writing tips
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