Brexitcast Returns
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, we go back to where it all began - Brexitcast.
Adam, Laura, Chris and Faisal reunite in the BBC Radio Theatre in front of a live audience to discuss the past and future of Brexit. Could another outcome have been possible? Could Theresa May have survived Brexit as PM? And, is the Brexit debate starting to heat up again?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello. Now, I'm sure it's not escaped your notice that all week we've been marking, in fact, celebrating the fifth anniversary of newscast launching as a daily podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | And you might have noticed that we've done a bit of a Taylor-themed ERAs tour style celebration, where we've gone through all the different chapters |
| 0:22.6 | and evolutions that we've gone through on this podcast, whether it was election cast, |
| 0:27.8 | coronavirus newscast, the classic daily newscast you're listening to now. |
| 0:32.5 | But our final trip to our memory lane is going to take us to where it all began, the original |
| 0:38.5 | Brexit cast, where me, Chris, Laura and Katcha got together on a daily, weekly, sometimes |
| 0:45.8 | early basis to talk about what was going on as the UK left the EU. So for our final celebration |
| 0:51.5 | of five years of newscast, we're going to head to the BBC radio theatre where we recorded a special look back at Brexitcast. |
| 0:58.7 | And it wasn't just nostalgic, because actually there's lots of places where Brexit is |
| 1:02.6 | popping up again in British politics. So that's what you're going to hear now. |
| 1:06.4 | And the first thing you'll hear is the classic Brexit cast opening music. |
| 1:10.2 | Brexit cast from the BBC. |
| 1:12.8 | No one's got to have a clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:15.3 | Brexit is... |
| 1:16.7 | I haven't quite understood the full extent of this. |
| 1:19.7 | We're particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais classic. |
| 1:23.2 | This election blew away the argument for a second referendum. |
| 1:26.7 | I urge everyone to find closure. |
| 1:29.3 | Let the healing begin. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm sorry. We will miss you. |
| 1:33.7 | The process which I cannot describe as a dog's Brexit. |
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