A TikToking off in Parliament

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The social media app has been banned from all parliamentary phones. Adam and Chris are joined by the former conservative leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who explains why he thinks TikTok should be banned on ministers' personal phones. He also gives his reaction to Boris Johnson's evidence to MPs on Partygate. Tony Schumacher, Screen Writer for the Bafta nominated TV police drama ‘The Responder’, shares how the series was inspired by his own experiences as a police officer. And, has Chris Mason managed to complete his challenge from Anneka Rice? Listen to find out! Today’s Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming and Chris Mason and was made by Cordelia Hemming with Cat Farnsworth and Chris Flynn. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	Hello newscasters, Chris Mason here, another Thursday
0:03.2	trundles around, so another Thursday newscast when the podcast pops up on the
0:08.0	telly BBC One after question time. If you're not already, why don't you try
0:11.4	subscribing to us following us on BBC Sounds or wherever else you find your
0:15.8	podcast and then we'll pop up in your feeds every time we hit send out, publish,
0:21.0	whatever it is, an episode. Thanks a lot.
0:23.8	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:29.4	One of the big TV events of the week was the return of Challenge Anica on
0:32.9	Channel 5 at the weekend. And we marked that moment on the newscast
0:35.8	podcast available on BBC Sounds by speaking to Anica for herself.
0:39.8	And it turns out she listens to newscast and she had a little challenge for
0:44.3	you, Chris. Indeed. So this was all about, well, Anica, you should tell us what
0:47.9	she's here. Hi, Anica.
0:50.2	Oh, it's so nice to be chatting to you, Chris.
0:54.4	It's lovely to chat to you. You're doing so well with some little personal
0:58.2	challenges you were doing in your life. I thought you were ready for a bigger one.
1:01.5	Well, per tree day. Yes. Right, and poem in a form of hiking.
1:06.5	Yes, well, I mean, well, I mean, fortunately, obviously, I've got no end of spare
1:10.6	time in weeks like this politically. So I could devote hours of it.
1:14.5	It really has. So I could devote every waking hour to the pursuit of
1:18.8	high coup. And I can now, I can now, rather with nervous trepidation, debut,
1:26.1	the premiere of the Mason High coup. So here we go. I'm worried about
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