The Ultimate News Quiz 2008

with quizmasters Andy Marr and Kirsty Young

BBC 24

Who’s on the BBC 24
Ultimate News Quiz team?

Jon Sopel, Ben Brown

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Jon Sopel presents The Politics Show on BBC ONE and is one of the lead presenters on News 24. His career includes working as a BBC political correspondent and Paris Correspondent and Jon has also written a biography of Tony Blair.

Ben Brown is one of the BBC’s most experienced war correspondents and has also covered major domestic events such as the Queen Mother’s funeral. He recently became one of the main newsreaders on BBC 24.

Ben joined BBC Television News in July 1988 and was a foreign affairs correspondent until 1991, reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf war, from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In 1991 he was appointed Moscow correspondent, where he witnessed the final collapse of communism and the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev.