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Born in the UFO

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Why is the White House is shooting down flying objects? Adam is joined by BBC’s security correspondent, Gordon Corera and North America correspondent, Sarah Smith, to discuss the mystery that’s gripping America. After a weekend of showbiz news Radio 1 DJ, Jack Saunders, gives his take on the performances and pageantry at the Brits and the Super Bowl. And one week on from the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria, we get an update from Lyse Doucet who is in Turkey. Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and was made by Tim Walklate with Cordelia Hemming and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editor editor was Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.1

Hello, what a week for Chris Mason, my fellow geography graduate to be off.

0:09.9

I mean, he's entitled to be off, obviously.

0:11.6

I'm not complaining.

0:12.6

It's just that there's a great geography story because ordnance survey, the people who

0:16.4

make those famous maps, so that later this year they're going to have a consultation

0:20.5

exercise about what new symbols they should add.

0:23.9

The first time they've done that in ages.

0:25.7

So in addition to being confused about whether a church has a steeple or not, you could

0:29.8

also now find bike repair shops, dog waste bins or river access points potentially depending

0:35.1

on how their consultation goes.

0:36.8

So why don't you let me know what crucial data you'd like to see added to our maps of whatever

0:42.5

scale.

0:43.5

newscast at bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0 330 123 9480 and I promise I will try and pass

0:53.0

them all on to the big map industrial complex.

0:56.6

Right.

0:57.6

And then find a way through this episode of newscast.

1:01.0

Newscast.

1:02.0

Newscast from the bbc.

1:03.0

He got trounced by the former prime minister who herself got beaten by a lettuce.

1:07.2

At least I didn't slap anybody which is good.

1:09.3

Rean economy.

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