Summary
The boss of MI6 speaks! His name is Richard Moore and he's said some really interesting things about China, Afghanistan and green ink! Adam talks it through with the BBC's Gordon Corera.
And after another Covid press conference from Boris Johnson, Adam and Fergus chat with a pharmacist in Surrey. How will the roll out of the booster jabs really work?
This episode of Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Sally Abrahams and Rosamund Jones. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, but it's also goodbye to Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, who is leaving the |
| 0:11.3 | social networking site, as we must call it, when we refer to it on the BBC, like we're |
| 0:15.9 | a bunch of people who've never heard of it before. |
| 0:18.8 | So to mark this moment, we're going to have a newscast first. |
| 0:23.4 | It is a real-life Twitter thread on the podcast, and it's about Jack Dorsey, and it's come |
| 0:29.3 | from L.J. Rich, who's one of the presenters on the BBC's tech show, Click! |
| 0:35.0 | Here's Tweet 104. |
| 0:37.2 | Jack Dorsey is an eccentric optimist and serial entrepreneur who likes fasting, saunas |
| 0:42.7 | and ice baths. |
| 0:44.3 | He strongly believes technology can change the world for the better. |
| 0:48.3 | This week, shortly after turning 45, he tweeted a goodbye email to his nearly 6 million |
| 0:54.4 | flock of followers. |
| 0:56.4 | Here's Tweet 2-4. |
| 0:59.0 | This is the second time he's flown the Twitter coop. |
| 1:02.1 | The first time he left to set up digital payments outfit Square in 2009, now worth a |
| 1:07.7 | cool $100 billion. |
| 1:10.5 | On his return, he stayed CEO of both companies. |
| 1:14.2 | Unsurprisingly, investors will be watching his next move with BDIs. |
| 1:19.7 | And yes, that was only 272 characters. |
| 1:22.5 | Here is 3-4. |
| 1:24.5 | As he says he'll leave the board, so the incoming CEO has space to lead. |
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