Andrew Marr’s Impressions

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Former BBC presenter, Andrew Marr, is in the studio with his view on Rishi Sunak’s first few days in Number 10. He also reveals himself to be quite good at impersonating a former prime minister. Also on the programme, we hear from someone who was quite good at impersonating a current prime minister, Shri Patel, who played Rishi Sunak in Sky TV show This England. And, BBC Ireland correspondent, Emma Vardy, explains why people in Northern Ireland are going to the polls. This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming, the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason, and political correspondent Alex Forsyth. It was made by Chris Flynn and Danny Wittenberg. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.9	Alex and Chris, I'm sure you know that newscast was the answer to one of the clues on the
0:09.2	Guardian cryptic crossword the other day.
0:12.1	And newscaster Michelle got in touch today to say, oh, surely even you Adam will know
0:16.7	be able to get 28 across in today's telegraph cryptic crossword, having had one lesson
0:22.2	in how to do cryptic crosswords.
0:23.2	I do love newscasts challenging you like that.
0:25.4	Yeah, they're very, very intellectual.
0:27.2	I've actually managed to work it out.
0:29.0	No, this is one clue.
0:30.6	This is one clue.
0:31.6	You're not cryptic crossword.
0:32.6	No, not at all.
0:33.6	It's a close look.
0:34.6	What's the clue?
0:35.6	The clue is reshuffle of cabinet rule for party 11 letters.
0:40.4	So I've since learned this week that the first or last word in the clue is kind of the
0:45.2	instruction for what you've got to do to solve it.
0:47.4	So reshuffle is an anagram, right?
0:49.4	Of course.
0:50.4	Yeah.
0:51.4	So then you're like, okay, anagram of what's got 11 letters?
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