Alan Duncan Dishes the Dirt
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Some juicy Westminster office gossip, courtesy of retired Tory minister Sir Alan Duncan and his newly published diaries. And as US President Joe Biden plays virtual host to a major climate summit, we speak to the diplomat behind the game-changing Paris agreement, Christiana Figueres, who tells us why saving the planet doesn’t have to be expensive.
Today’s Newscast was made by our editor, Dino Sofos, with Daniel Wittenberg, Ben Cooper and Alix Pickles. The Studio Director was Richard Townsend.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Chris, did you see what the most read story was at one point on the BBC news website today? |
| 0:09.4 | Funny enough, my wife tilted my, it tilted her phone at me on the sofa last night said have you seen this and she doesn't |
| 0:14.4 | tend to do that with news stories so I have it was the Italian man who didn't turn up to work for 15 years |
| 0:20.4 | but still got paid which is which is quite a knack but I was starting to feel a bit like him because we hadn't turned up to do our TV show from the Westminster studio on a Thursday night for months and months and months and months because of COVID. |
| 0:33.0 | And now we're back and I allowed myself to ponder in one of those reflective moments. |
| 0:37.8 | What have I actually done with my Thursday evenings since December the whenever when we were last |
| 0:42.1 | on? Because nothing's been open so what have I done and I can't |
| 0:46.0 | account for it at all. Yeah and so if you missed us on TV on Thursday night on BBC |
| 0:51.4 | 1 there's another chance to catch us on the BBC News channel, |
| 0:55.0 | Friday nights at 930, |
| 0:57.0 | and on I-player, basically forever. |
| 1:00.0 | Who I didn't know that? |
| 1:01.0 | So yes, those are all the places you and Chris Mason can catch this |
| 1:04.6 | addition of newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. What is this virus? How does it |
| 1:10.1 | spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones no one's got to |
| 1:13.8 | include what Brexit is there have been 300,000 34 974,000 tests carried |
| 1:21.9 | out across the UK. |
| 1:23.2 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:30.0 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:33.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:35.0 | And Laura in the studio, two meters apart. |
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