Alex Horne Breaks The News

Mark Watson and Romesh Ranganathan vie for the title of best news quizzer. It gets rather heated and a little competitive fortunately Alex Carter is on hand to calm everyone down. Oh and Alex Horne is great as ever. but you knew that already.

Welcome to episode two which is a Saint Jude storm special... well we at least discuss the super storm which makes it special in our eyes. Plus stories about a beer enthusiast and James Acaster describing the Badger cull in 44secs.

Alex Horne is back breaking the news, more in the manner of a 8 year old boy testing the tensile strength of a flimsy twig. It's definitely gets broken but nobody is sure why. For episode one of this brand new series Tim Key and Andrew Maxwell provide nothing and everything in equal measure. Its topical podcasting... of sorts.

How can this be the FINAL episode of the series? The fun just hasn’t stopped, has it? Except for that time when Miles ate rice for a week. That wasn’t fun - that was for a good cause. Well done Miles Jupp. For the final episode of the series we have Sara Pascoe and Charlie Baker. Two hilarious people with a staunch knowledge of obscure news... hopefully.

Nat Luurtsema and Angelos Epithemiou join Alex in our very first news special. Not wanting to miss out on the main talking point of last year, we thought we'd reminisce and join the bandwagon, even if it is 11 months too late.

It's a special Anglo-Irish-Welsh edition of the podcast this week as presenter Alex Horne, who hails from West Sussex, is joined by stand-up Sean Hughes (who was born in London, but spent most of his youth in Firhouse, Dublin) and comedian Katy Wix, who you'll recognise from the sitcom Not Going Out but who grew up in Cardiff. Thankfully the team are joined by a Joaquin Phoenix lookalike rather than the real Joaquin Phoenix otherwise it would have been an Anglo-Irish-Welsh-North American themed show, which would have been a bit of a stretch.

Tim Key and Dan Antopolski rattle through the news with Alex Horne at the Helm. It's news but not as you know it. Mainly because it's barely news. It's the type of news that you find behind your sofa when looking for your phone.

Nick Helm and Tony Law join Alex in dismantling the week's big news topics; mosquitos, education, long words... yup we've got it all and if that's not enough to keep your earphones in we have a guide to Selby.

Alex Horne is joined by comedians Miles Jupp and Rob Beckett and 'professional thinker' Stephen Brown to cut out random stories from the newspapers and paste them into a slightly threatening but always hilarious podcast-shaped letter that demands your attention.

Tim Key and Ardal O’Hanlon join Alex Horne in our weekly light-hearted exploration of the week’s events - if you imagine that the week’s events are a supermarket aisle - maybe dairy - then we’d be sort of trotting down that aisle, picking up yoghurts, scooting along on the back of the trolley and then occasionally having a proper discussion about which milk to buy - because there is always time for actual opinions on this podcast.

Katy Wix and Phil Nichol are in the hot seats this week to delve deep into the news from all over the globe in our world news special. Lost cities, cunning fugitives, remote control turtles… it’s got it all. With such cutting edge stories, there’s no need to follow the real news anymore.

Rob Beckett and Dan Antopolski join Alex to discuss the news this week, although to call it news would be a huge disservice to current affairs. It’s neither current nor affairs driven. It’s like the news equivalent of the reduced section in the supermarket.

Peacock and Gamble join Alex at chez Dave to give him some much needed podcasting advice, they also give their in depth analysis of the Syrian crisis and push bee expert Jim Tanner to the limit of his knowledge.

Alex Horne breaks the news for the second week running and boy does he have some really newsy news for you this week. Last week’s news was good but this week’s is certainly newsier.

Alex Horne officially breaks the news for the first time this week and without wanting to blow our own... ok that idiom is probably slightly too specific in this context... but trust us it's a rather splendid podcast with lots of laughs, games and (amusing) analysis.

Alex Horne introduces his brand new comedy podcast about some of the funnier news topics of the week.