BONUS! Live At Castfest: The Newscast Q&A!
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios, Adam, Chris and Henry get grilled by the audience at Castfest.
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenters were Adam Fleming, Chris Mason and Henry Zeffman. It was made by Anna Harris with Kris Jalowiecki. The social producer was Sophie Millward. The technical producer was Matilda Macari. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, I've got another bonus episode from this weekend's cast fest for you. |
| 0:10.1 | This was when we brought together lots of the BBC news podcasts at the BBC's historic Made of Vale Studios. |
| 0:15.9 | And it was great fun. |
| 0:17.1 | And thank you to everyone who came along and made it such a good day. |
| 0:20.3 | What you're going to hear |
| 0:21.3 | now is the question and answer session that me, Henry and Chris did with some of the newscasters |
| 0:28.1 | who were there. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Humanity's next great voyage begins. We are in the |
| 0:34.8 | midst of a rupture. Nostalgia will not bring back the old order. Six-seven. Yeah. It's supposed to be me as a doctor. There he has also a special connotation. Ooh-l-la-la. Thinking about it like a pantor helped. Do we play music now? What do we do? My first thought as you're applauding was like, oh, it's very nice that they're It was very I was like, oh, it's quite a long way to the stage, and then we'll have to fap around, and then you'll have to keep applauding for ages and ages and ages. Then my second thought was, I've just got this really rubbish unbranded cup. That's because you smashed a newscast while at last recording. Yes, so just so in the other room, when when we were doing newscast, it finished. I was like, let's go and chat to everyone in the audience. And so I moved my microphone, which was on a stand, and it tipped over, and it managed to land on the table directly on top of a newscast mug, which then smashed in a terrible omen-style way. |
| 1:30.0 | Did you notice Adam's use of the passive there? |
| 1:31.1 | It's tipped over. |
| 1:33.9 | I constantly tease my kids about this, |
| 1:36.2 | exactly, the active and the passive voice. |
| 1:39.3 | So the idea of this is that me, Henry and Chris will be fielding your questions |
| 1:41.9 | on, I think, any subject whatsoever. |
| 1:45.0 | Right, okay, we've got a question from Roe-Hitt. |
| 1:49.0 | Where are you, Ro-Hitt? |
| 1:51.0 | Hello, Ro-Hitt. |
| 1:52.0 | Fire away. |
| 1:53.0 | Hi. |
| 1:54.0 | So my question is, which two current politicians |
| 1:58.0 | would you ship to be the next big |
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