1st Birthday Special: Your questions answered
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's The News Agents' first birthday. So we open the floor for questions from you, the listener.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | Once again, I'm afraid I'm having to start this show by saying that there will be strong language from John Sopel from the very start of this podcast. |
| 0:19.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | Okay, well that was a good start. |
| 0:30.4 | The studio is currently covered with champagne. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm going to lean over. |
| 0:34.4 | According to plan, no. |
| 0:37.0 | It sounds like the studio wasn't really made for leaning over. Oh, chink. Okay. Hang on how are we going to lean over. According to plan. No. It turns out this studio wasn't really made for leaning over. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, chink. |
| 0:40.8 | Okay. |
| 0:40.8 | Hang on how are we going to get there? |
| 0:42.0 | We'll have to simulate this. |
| 0:43.1 | I feel like this hasn't gone very well. |
| 0:45.2 | Cheers. |
| 0:45.8 | Cheers. |
| 0:47.2 | We've now got a studio where the floor is covered in champagne. |
| 0:50.8 | I've got champagne all over my trousers and popping that cork... |
| 0:54.2 | Just a typical Wednesday, really. Turned out to be a little more complicated and stressful |
| 0:58.1 | than I thought it might be. Just a normal day in the newsagents HQ for you, isn't it, John? |
| 1:02.8 | Well, normally we have the bottle of champagne before we go on air, but we've decided to |
| 1:05.9 | bring the bottle of champagne into the studio to uncork it to mark our first birthday. |
| 1:11.6 | It is our first birthday. |
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