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A Podcast Of Two Halves

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The world leaders are on the beach and the footballers are finally on the pitch. The BBC’s voice of football, John Murray, talks through who could be in with a chance at the Euros. And Laura joins Adam in Cornwall to chat through what’s happening at the G7 (as well as what might happen on Monday with Government’s opening up announcement).

Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with producers Georgia Coan and Natalie Ktena. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor, Dino Sofos is the Editor.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.5

Hello, here is my G7 summit routine.

0:07.8

It involves walking up quite a steep hill

0:10.8

to get to the ring of steel,

0:12.2

and it is a ring of steel because there's a massive

0:14.4

perimeter fence right in the secure zone and there's a hello hello and lots of very

0:19.6

friendly police officers every 10 meters or so they've got a lot of sitting around to do

0:24.7

but they don't seem too miserable about it. Everyone's actually very chipper here.

0:28.8

I think it's being by the seaside. You can hear the birds tweeting and there's loads of trees and stuff and it's actually

0:37.2

stopped raining or in fact mizzling which is the Cornish trademark combination of

0:42.0

mist and drizzle and the sun even came out a little bit

0:45.3

and now I have to get my accreditation out and the negative COVID test that I did at 5 o'clock this morning.

0:55.0

Excellent, just turn that around slowly. Joffin, make the period.

0:56.0

Yep.

0:57.0

Uh...

0:58.0

Don't need the bridge as well. of Sun Cream, Great, I guess for that.

1:04.0

Right, that's me through security, and now I'm at Trigana Castle, which is, yeah, a castle.

1:12.0

I haven't had a chance to look it up on Wikipedia yet, so I can't tell you

1:15.0

how old it is or who used to live here or who built it. But this is kind of just outside

1:20.6

where the main summit venue is, which is the next bay around Carbus Bay and this is where all the media are

1:26.2

There's some tent set up where we do our our live broadcasts with a lovely view of St Ives in the background

1:31.7

Also in this castle this is where lots of the delegations are staying.

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