Breaking the News Returns for Third Series

BBC Radio Scotland’s hit panel show Breaking the News launched its third series to a packed crowd at Edinburgh’s Summerhall.

Episode one saw host Des Clarke play ring-master to half an hour of satirical games and political comment. Comics Andrew Maxwell, Gareth Waugh, Alistair Barrie and journalist Anna Burnside by turns suggested ways to make up Scotland’s £15 billion debt, how to celebrate International Women’s Day and played a kind of updated Guess Who? using politicians’ Twitter feeds.

The series continues over the next couple of months, with tickets available free to the public on a first-come-first-served basis. There are plenty of chances to see the news torn to shreds by local comics: recordings take place once a week in Glasgow's Art School, with a trip to Edinburgh's Pleasance planned for 7 April. Each episode is broadcast the following day on BBC Radio Scotland and is then available on BBC iPlayer.

These next few weeks should offer fertile ground for satire, with local elections, the Scottish government’s recently-renewed efforts towards independence and the EU referendum in June all set up for comedic treatment.

The line-up for this series includes Fern Brady, Rory Bremner, Susan Calman, Tez Ilyas, Jay Lafferty, Keir McAllister, Fred MacAuley and Chitra Ramaswamy. 

Free tickets can be reserved here.