Bobbies and Jobbies
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Has the government honoured its manifesto pledge and successfully recruited 20,000 police officers since 2019? Crime, justice and police commentator Danny Shaw joins Adam and Chris to fact check those claims. Also under the microscope is the government’s new target to reduce sewage overflows by 2050.
6-Music’s resident news hound Matt Everitt also drops by for a summary of all the music-related stories, including Ed Sheeran’s plagiarism court battle with the family of Marvin Gaye.
Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Tim Walklate with Rufus Gray, Chloe Desave and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, shall we hear the people arriving in London's stand stead on the unscheduled departure |
| 0:11.2 | from Khartoum in Sudan? Remember these are the first batch of people on the flights out |
| 0:17.2 | of Sudan who are not government employees or diplomats and so people who'd been calling |
| 0:22.4 | to be evacuated. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm very happy to come back. It was an nightmare. |
| 0:27.3 | It's difficult to say how...stomach churning it was. |
| 0:32.9 | You must be so happy to have them back. |
| 0:35.4 | Of course we're safe. There's no bombing. We're not in danger. |
| 0:40.2 | I mean it took 11 days but thank God. Thank God we're back. |
| 0:43.3 | And in other slightly sudan related news, after our chat yesterday with Larry Madoro from |
| 0:50.2 | CNN, formerly of the BBC, and Larry's tweaked about what it was like briefly getting back |
| 0:55.6 | together with an ex, we've hit the news in Kenya, where he's from and where he was on |
| 1:02.1 | the last episode. It's actually a news story that Larry's been reunited with his old flame, |
| 1:08.3 | the BBC. |
| 1:09.3 | Anyway, it's nice to be reunited with you for this episode of newscast. |
| 1:13.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:14.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:15.5 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a letter. |
| 1:20.0 | At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
| 1:22.9 | Larb Larb Larb. |
| 1:23.9 | It's the Guardian reading. |
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