Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer says he’ll quit if he’s fined for breaking lockdown rules…
Adam chews over the Labour leader’s predicament with Chris, who’s having a busy first day in the job as BBC political editor. They also discuss the news that the Queen won’t be at the State Opening of Parliament – the first time she’s missed it since 1963.
Also… the BBC’s Chris Page joins us from Belfast to give us the latest on the stalemate in Stormont.
And… Professor Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, author of The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity, tells us why Victory Day is such a big deal in Russia.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Cordelia Hemming and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, the BBC Archives Twitter account, which has quarter of a million followers and tweets |
| 0:10.1 | out interesting gems from the BBC archive, made my weekend by tweeting out an old video |
| 0:15.2 | of me from news round in 2005, talking about the crazy frog ringtone being turned into |
| 0:22.4 | a single. |
| 0:23.8 | Sales of ringtones recently overtook the sales of CD singles, but is this just a case |
| 0:28.4 | of cashing in on both Let's Ring the Record Company and find out. |
| 0:32.1 | So then I call up Guy Homes from Gut Records. |
| 0:34.3 | Hi Adam, how are you? |
| 0:38.3 | Hi there. |
| 0:39.3 | So why did you decide to turn the crazy frog into a single? |
| 0:42.4 | It was driving me absolutely barmy and I was just sitting somewhere on a Sunday lunch |
| 0:46.8 | time I thought, you know what? |
| 0:47.8 | That's like a great record, it would really upset everyone if they would be brilliant. |
| 0:52.0 | Are you not really worried that people are going to get very annoyed with it? |
| 0:55.7 | It's a bit of fun and life's too serious nowadays. |
| 0:58.6 | This frog has spawned a multi million pound industry, the company behind the ringtone |
| 1:03.0 | has made about 14 million quids from it. |
| 1:05.6 | Well there you go. |
| 1:06.6 | Now obviously the crazy frog and I are 17 years older now than we were then. |
| 1:11.0 | So what happened to him? |
| 1:13.1 | Well in 2009 they uploaded the video of that infamous song Axel F to YouTube and it since |
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