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Newscast

Alice Levine & Matt Forde

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A day of election results and travel announcements. As the results roll in (or at least start to roll in), Laura explains what it all means. We explore the travel green list with our very own travel agent. And podcasting superstars, Alice Levine and Matt Forde, share some of their podcasting wisdom.

Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with producers Natalie Ktena and Alix Pickles. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor. Dino Sofos is the Editor.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.7

Hello, so there's a big task at hand, which is redoing the newscast opening music

0:10.8

with some new up-to-date clips of people in the news. You have made some suggestions.

0:15.0

To judge whether they are good suggestions, we have got podcasting royalty, Alice Levine,

0:20.0

and Matt Ford, who have a new podcast out right now.

0:22.6

Hello, you two.

0:23.3

Hello.

0:24.3

Are you ready for this X Factor style thing that we're going to do?

0:27.3

This could be the end of it all.

0:29.5

Well, I mean, these clips get listened to literally millions of times a year so you've got to pick some good ones.

0:34.7

So the first one was suggested by Jonathan Waywell and it's Boris mispronouncing something.

0:40.2

Combined with contact testing tracing,

0:45.0

for giving, contact, contact tracing through NHS test and trace

0:50.0

can control the virus and thus avoid more stringent measures.

0:55.0

Matt, tell me if we should have that.

0:57.0

I looked immediately.

0:58.0

I think it's going to be very hard to beat.

1:00.0

That is high quality.

1:02.0

Okay, Sarah Borden wanted a clip of Kieer Starmer,

1:05.0

but we thought about how about a clip of Kieer Starmer being shouted at by a pub landlord?

1:09.0

Of course.

1:10.0

That man is not allowed in my pub.

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