Summary
In January this year, Brexitcasters packed out the BBC's Radio Theatre as Britain left the EU. Who'd have thought that eleven months later, we'd all be Newscasters, experts in the R number, PCR testing and Tiers?
It's also been the year of Black Lives Matter, long drives to Barnard Castle and Hugh Bonneville dramatically reading out Girls Aloud lyrics. So join Adam, Fergus and Laura as we take one last look - and bid good riddance - to 2020. Thank you for listening, and we wish you all a Happy New Year!
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Episode producer: Ben Weisz Newscast production team: Sej Asar, Georgia Coan. Jo Deahl, Rick Kelsey, Natalie Ktena, Harriet Noble, Alix Pickles, Frankie Tobi, Ione Wells Assistant Editors: Sam Bonham and Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I know everyone is saying this at the moment. |
| 0:08.2 | What a year. |
| 0:09.9 | And I think what I've realized is that covering Brexit made me grow up as a journalist, but doing |
| 0:17.0 | this podcast at this time has made me grow up as a person. Just all the things that we've experienced together. |
| 0:27.6 | It's been extraordinary really. |
| 0:31.2 | And we've tried to do it with a bit of a sense of humor as well because you kind of got to. |
| 0:38.0 | And Judy, who's a newscaster, emailed to say that her highlight of the year was the sober rendition of |
| 0:45.5 | girls' aloud lyrics in the spring. She said, Crease Me Up, one of many hilarious contributions |
| 0:51.1 | in the early COVID days that I would listen to during my allotted |
| 0:54.5 | hours exercise around the empty streets where I live. Cheered me up no end and had me laughing |
| 1:01.3 | out loud. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, Judy, that got me thinking, because there were more girls of loud lyrics than I remember, |
| 1:07.5 | because there was a time we got Hugh Bonneville to do Love Machine. |
| 1:11.5 | Your calls late, big mistake. |
| 1:15.0 | You've got to hang about in limbo for as long as I take. |
| 1:17.5 | Next time, read my mind, and I'll be good to you. |
| 1:22.0 | We're gift-wrapped kitty cats. We're only turning into tigers when we got a fight back. Then we got Nadeen coil from actual girls aloud, who read out the most appropriate one of their songs for an era when |
| 1:35.2 | we were obsessed with RNA, lateral flow, PCR, the R number, Number. Biology. |
| 1:43.0 | You can't mistake my biology. |
| 1:46.0 | The way that we talk, the way that we walk, it's there on our thoughts, |
| 1:51.0 | the magic number is in front of me. |
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