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Brexitcast... You first?

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BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With a deadline looming for a deal with the EU, Adam is stalking Michel Barnier, Laura and Chris are avidly following the pandemonium in Downing St, while Katya is getting popcorn emojis from officials in Brussels...it’s just like old times!

Brexitcast is back to explain what lies in the way of a post-Brexit trade deal, whether Joe Biden’s election makes it more or less likely to happen, and whether the pandemic is helping or hindering its chances of getting signed off.

Studio Director: Gerard Sudlow Producers: Ben Weisz, Frankie Tobi, Patrick Baker Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.7

Today really has been a throwback Thursday.

0:07.8

We decided that there's so much Brexit stuff

0:10.0

for me to catch up on.

0:11.0

We're going to rebrand as our old selves Brexit Cast, which we've done in the

0:16.6

studio we've got the old Brexit Cast table and the old Brexit Cast spaffles, which sound

0:21.1

exactly the same as the newscast ones, but we just like to do attention to detail and then on top of all that

0:27.3

Michelle Barnier then did a tweet with a niche insider joke about Brexit where he took a picture of himself on a football pitch and said I'm just taking a break

0:37.3

So look for a level playing field

0:39.3

Which should mean tradition dictates Adam that you're charging onto the pitch.

0:43.4

They think it's not quite all over because there's seven weeks to go and here comes Adam

0:46.9

chasing Michel Barnier.

0:48.5

Yeah and so it was a football pitch in North London I was told so I went to my nearest

0:52.2

football pitch in North London and was told so I went to my nearest football pitch in

0:52.9

North London and was Michelle Barnier there? No he was not.

0:56.5

Oh, and how did you feel? Well it left me with a sort of sad galick shrug that I

1:02.4

just missed him.

1:03.2

Or maybe I'd gone to completely the wrong football pitch and so I didn't even

1:06.3

nearly miss him.

1:07.3

He just wasn't there.

1:08.3

Haven't you kind of tagged him though?

1:09.3

Isn't that why you always used to find him in Brussels?

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