A Striking Dilemma

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Could the strikes this winter spell trouble for the government? Adam and Chris speak to Alan Jones, industrial correspondent for the Press Association about what's behind the industrial action that's taking place and what impact these strikes could have. Also, the BBC’s media editor Amol Rajan discusses what he’s found out about the role accents play in social mobility for his new documentary ‘How to Crack the Class Ceiling’. This episode of Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Emma Jacobs, Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Mike Regaard and the assistant editor was Louisa Lewis.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:30.0	and presenter of the press X to continue podcast. Hello. Hello.
0:34.0	I feel like it seems that's a good bargain deal that is you're getting there.
0:36.9	Well, let's see how you do.
0:39.3	First of all, item number one on the agenda, you're initially quite disappointed
0:44.2	when you got Morocco and the newscast sweepstake, weren't you?
0:46.8	About you're not disappointed. Now, you know what?
0:49.0	I need to go back and give my old self a telling off, you know,
0:52.2	because sometimes positive mental attitude and all that, because they've been fantastic.
0:56.6	What a journey for Morocco fans, which of which I now count myself to not go to team
1:01.2	like Spain on penalties like they did today is fantastic.
1:04.7	You know, for them to win in that sort of manner, it's just another against one of the highly
1:10.0	fancy teams like Spain as well.
1:11.5	I've been playing so well.
1:12.9	It's just another fairy tale for this woke up on the pitch.
1:16.3	And we're recording this episode of newscast about 7pm on Tuesday.
1:19.6	So that football and drama happened just a few minutes ago.
1:23.4	Right.
1:23.9	Part two.
1:24.8	The Oxford English Dictionary word of the year this year is actually a phrase goblin mode.
1:32.1	Now, no one I know from many walks of life has ever used this phrase or heard this phrase.
1:37.0	But there is a bit of a sort of, there's a bit of a gaming angle to it.
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