An interest rate rise... and Rob Delaney

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Bank of England expects the UK to fall into the longest ever recession. Stephanie Flanders, Head of Bloomberg Economics, and Claer Barrett, Consumer Editor at Financial Times, talk it all through. Also, American comedian Rob Delaney speaks movingly about the loss of his young son, and why he’s chosen to write about it. This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming and the BBC’s political editor, Chris Mason. It was made by Chris Flynn, Paige Neal-Holder and Danny Wittenberg. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	So Chris, you know I hang on every tweet by Katie Perry, the singer.
0:09.4	Absolutely, yeah.
0:10.7	Imagine my surprise this morning when she not only tweeted,
0:13.8	but she tweeted about our trade journalism.
0:16.9	Did she?
0:17.4	Yeah, this is what she said in her tweet this morning.
0:19.7	One of my favorite signs ever is the sign of a crisp new newspaper
0:23.3	being read over breakfast for an hour or so.
0:25.2	Can't believe this, Katie Perry.
0:26.5	The popping out of it, the folding, the scribbling on the crossword.
0:30.0	I hope it never goes out of fashion in our digital world.
0:32.8	It is too romantic.
0:34.5	She, Katie Perry is right.
0:36.3	I think that's absolutely right.
0:37.5	There's something about, there is.
0:38.7	It's what's the scrunch, the kind of, you know, in case Katie's watching.
0:43.1	I thought or listening, we could do a little sort of ASMR style thing of us.
0:46.9	Oh yeah, we're marrying a lot of Sans Frogger.
0:48.6	I can't remember, but it's, it's, we're probably like that.
0:51.1	No, it's not, it's something about the thing,
0:52.5	it's something about the thickness of the paper.
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