An Olympics Newscast Special - Six Months Until Paris
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at this summer’s Paris Olympics. With six months to go until the opening ceremony we see how Parisians are preparing, the hopes of Team GB and who could be the breakout stars of this year’s games.
To guide you through Adam is joined by the Chair of UK Sport and one of Britain’s most decorated Olympians, Katherine Grainger, Olympic gold medallist swimmer, Rebecca Adlington, BBC Sport presenter Sarah Mulkerrins and sports reporter for Le Parisien, Romain Baheux.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper, Sam McLaren and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Matt Hewitt. The assistant editor was Chris Gray. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, thank you so much for the nice messages about our interview with Neil Kinnock. |
| 0:10.1 | Julian John said the wonderful Neil Kinnock talks about being 82 the passing of |
| 0:14.4 | Glenis his political views and the critical role of carers and palliative care |
| 0:18.8 | what a guy Bernie said incredibly touching discussion on newscasts with Neil Kinnock about social care. |
| 0:25.6 | You recently lost his wife, the wonderful Glenis, took complications from a degenerative disease. |
| 0:30.2 | Neil is simply a man with a good heart. |
| 0:32.4 | If you haven't seen it, it's worth finding on BBC |
| 0:35.2 | I player. Bernie, I totally agree with you. It's also available on BBC sounds if you haven't listened to the last |
| 0:40.9 | episode. And also you got a bit of Paul from the |
| 0:42.9 | traitors. And then Tara said Lord Kinect just fantastic. UK needs only look |
| 0:47.7 | across Lamanche for a model of social care taxation and responsibility. Lamanche of course is the French words for the English channel and the other side of the English channel is |
| 0:57.8 | France and don't know very much about their social care model that's something for me to go to look up |
| 1:02.7 | after we've recorded this episode. But Tara has inspired us to look across |
| 1:06.9 | Lamontch because this episode of newscast is going to be a preview of the Paris |
| 1:11.6 | Olympics which are happening in precisely six months time. |
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