2023 In Review: Part One
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In part one of their end of year review, Jon, Emily and Lewis look back on the news from the months of January to June.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Arvind Badewal & Shane Fennelly
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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 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | I am announcing my intention to step down as first minister and leader of my party. |
| 0:17.0 | An explosive trove of text messages has given fresh insight into Matt Hancock's early handling |
| 0:23.3 | of the pandemic. The first time we have ever seen a president former or current criminally charged. |
| 0:30.1 | He is a criminal defendant entering a courtroom. Prince Harry is the first member of the British royal |
| 0:34.8 | family in 130 years to appear as a witness in court. |
| 0:38.4 | Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister, is going to stand down as an MP. He's quitting as an MP. |
| 0:47.6 | Just a few of the voices of 2023, the year that Boris Johnson resigned as an MP. Nicholas Sturgeon exited the Scottish |
| 0:57.3 | political stage to be replaced briefly by a blue forensic tent. And Matt Hancock thought it was a good |
| 1:03.4 | idea to share his WhatsApp messages with a journalist. And those are just the first six months |
| 1:09.9 | of this year. On today's episode of the |
| 1:13.4 | festive newsagents, we should have a special logo saying the festive newsagents. We're going to look |
| 1:18.1 | back from January to June. Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. |
| 1:27.9 | It's Emily. |
| 1:28.7 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:29.5 | And it's December the 27th. |
| 1:31.5 | Sort of. |
| 1:32.2 | If you believe that, you'll believe anything. |
| 1:33.6 | The idea of getting Emily Maitlinson on the 27th of December. |
| 1:36.0 | I don't think so. |
| 1:36.9 | I haven't left. |
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