Au Revoir Marine Le Pen?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today, Marine Le Pen walked out of a Parisian courtroom after being found guilty of embezzling EU funds.
Adam is joined by Katya Adler and Marion Soletty, Politico’s Editor-At-Large in France to unpack Le Pen’s first interview after the verdict in which she called the ruling a "political decision" and says she will appeal. They discuss the dramatic day in court, and what the National Rally party might do next.
And Chris has been talking to the Prime Minister about the Netflix drama Adolescence, after Keir Starmer hosted a roundtable at Downing Street with the show’s creators.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, this episode of Newscast is a tale of two cities. |
| 0:07.6 | We're going to start off in Paris because Marine Le Pen, the frontrunner to be the next president, |
| 0:13.3 | has been barred from the contest by a French court. |
| 0:16.5 | And then we're going to head back to London because Chris has been interviewing Kyrsomer |
| 0:20.8 | about a TV program, which seems like a whole different order of magnitude, but it's still important nonetheless. |
| 0:26.7 | So that's the two tracks we're going to pursue on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:31.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:33.6 | I like landscapes. |
| 0:34.5 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:35.8 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 0:38.3 | That is not the agenda. |
| 0:39.6 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 0:41.8 | The star is born, Elon. |
| 0:43.8 | It's all perked that a miracle with us happen. |
| 0:45.9 | Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 0:47.7 | Take me down to Downing Street. |
| 0:49.5 | Let's go have it to work. |
| 0:51.1 | Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, |
| 0:55.4 | and shortly we will chat to Chris Mason in Westminster |
| 0:58.1 | because he and the Prime Minister |
| 1:00.2 | have been watching the big Netflix drama |
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