Episodes
Published 07/11/14
Live from the Soho Theatre Alex Horne Breaks the News has taken his podcast to the people. In front of a live audience, Andy Zaltzman, Brett Goldstein and Ian Smith join Alex in taking the news to the proverbial cleaners and back.
Published 07/11/14
Jiggle and bop to some of the greatest songs of all time. Yes Alex has finally given in to the weighty pressure and put together an album, yes album, of producer Joel's favourite songs.
Published 07/02/14
After an interminable seven day hiatus we welcome back the weekly news podcast with former, present – and hopefully future - host Alex Horne and guest comedians Romesh Ranganathan and John Robins.
Published 06/27/14
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST and Alex Horne Breaks the News super fan LIZZY YARNOLD joins comedians Andrew Maxwell and Matt Richardson in the news cupboard this week. When everything else is a world cup special, we've gone against the grain.
Published 06/20/14
Sometimes in life you get more than you bargained for and sometimes you get less. This time we've got both. Revelations galore.
Published 06/13/14
Alex is joined by three, yes three, comedians this week. Ray Peacock, Katherine Ryan and Brett Goldstein. Its a triumvirate of great comedy guests. Triumvirate! there we said it again.
Published 06/06/14
Adam Riches and Craig Campbell wade through the murky waters of the Commonwealth news, with Ian Smith giving a statistical analysis... of sorts.
Published 05/30/14
Andy Zaltzman and Liam Williams join alex at Dave towers for a hefty dose of wit, wonder and whimsy. Oh dear, at least the podcast is better than this intro.
Published 05/24/14
Alex is joined by three of the members of Irish sketch wizards Diet of Worms; Shane, Amy and Niall.
Published 05/16/14
Yes this episode has it all. Just when you thought Alex Horne couldn't get any more topical he goes and tops the lot. AMAZING! With him to pick apart and play around with the news morsels like hungry yet playful hamsters are Mike Wozniak, Hal Cruttenden and the Lovely Chloe Howard.
Published 05/09/14
Roisin Conaty and Matt Forde try their hardest to out wit each other on the second episode of this amazing series. Yes AMAZING! This episode Alex and guests take the news bull by it's horns and grapple unsuccessfully with it, before giving up and going home.
Published 05/02/14
Multi award winning Alex Horne is joined by Gyles Brandreth and Simon Evans as well as Tim Key as his beautiful assistant. Biscuits seem to be a hot topic of conversation this week.
Published 04/25/14
You'll all be pleased to hear that Alex Horne Breaks the News has been nominated for a Chortle Comedy Award so here's a little song to incentivise you to give him a little vote. He's also been nominated for the Horne Section (is there such a thing as being too talented?) so vote for them too while you are there
Published 02/27/14
Live from the Soho Theatre, Alex Horne Breaks the news! Obviously not live in every sense, but live enough to call it live and joined by Three of the the best comedians England has to offer, Alex Horne see's in the Christmas season in style... ish.
Published 12/26/13
Lucy Porter, Max and Ivan and Alex Horne try to make sense of what can only be described as not news, but dressed up as news, news. Or what Alex refers to as a topical napkin.
Published 12/20/13
Johnny Vegas and Brett Goldstein rattle the news cage this week, while Andy Zaltzman tries his hardest (and fails) at not joining in. It's our first 'Explicit' tag, so it must be a good one.
Published 12/13/13
Milton Jones and Sara Pascoe fight it out to be crowned the (USELESS) NEWS CHAMPION of 2013. The least prestigious award since Dave's 'Clothes Drying Champion 1994'. This week topics such as celebrity autobiographies, Quite Interesting questions and the Mind all rear there ugly heads, along with a lovely interview about the mind with Thomas Trader.
Published 12/06/13
David Baddiel and Mike Wozniak are in to tackle the small and very small news stories from the week. From a saluting grave digger to the big story of the week about Amazon shift workers. Wow, it really is news isn't it.
Published 11/29/13
Just when you thought this podcast couldn't get anymore global we go and make a truly international special. It's highbrow for the lowbrow generation. Think world news for the under 8s but with adult content.
Published 11/22/13
Nonsensical, whimsical and (un)topical as ever. Alex breaks the news with more funny celebrities (or comedians). Nish Kumar and Iain Lee join the musical wizard in his quest for news perfection.
Published 11/15/13
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.
Published 11/08/13
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.
Published 11/01/13
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.
Published 10/25/13
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.
Published 07/05/13