Carry on Christmas
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Laura chats to Adam about reports that Christmas parties were held in Downing Street at the height of last year’s lockdown. The BBCs Hugh Pym and Branwen Jeffreys join Adam to discuss whether festivities and school nativities will go ahead this year. We hear views from the picket line as university staff go on a three-day strike over pay, working conditions and pensions. Adam brings you Newscast’s very own – and very brief – version of Radio 4’s ‘The Reith Lectures’. It’s all about AI. And as advent calendars are opened, Adam invents his own version, ‘the badvent calendar’, a collection of the most cringeworthy moments of 2021. Please share yours: newscast@bbc.co.uk This episode of Newscast was made by Ros Jones with Georgia Coan, Ben Cooper, Alix Pickles and Sally Abrahams. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall. The studio manager was Michael Regaard
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, we're recording this episode on the 1st of December, which means time to open |
| 0:10.3 | our Advent calendars, which is a moment that I love every year. |
| 0:15.0 | Also our friends on the today program are doing a radio Advent calendar where they have |
| 0:19.4 | a really good bit of audio from their program throughout the year every day up until Christmas. |
| 0:25.2 | And because you know we love the today program, we're going to do our usual thing of |
| 0:29.7 | paying tribute slash subversing them by doing our own twisted newscast version. |
| 0:35.6 | So I've invented the Bad Vent calendar where instead of showcasing your best bits, you |
| 0:41.4 | showcase your most cringy bits of the year every day until Christmas. |
| 0:46.7 | So let's open the first door of the newscast Bad Vent calendar. |
| 0:52.4 | Who will it be? |
| 1:04.0 | PM, what's your favourite kind of tree? |
| 1:06.5 | Chopper favourite tree? |
| 1:07.8 | No favourite tree. |
| 1:13.0 | The future of the planet was being decided, so what did I ask the Prime Minister when |
| 1:16.5 | he popped up in front of me? |
| 1:17.7 | What's your favourite tree? |
| 1:19.0 | I think there's probably plenty more where that came from. |
| 1:22.0 | And so if you have a particularly cringed moment from this year of newscast, do let us |
| 1:25.9 | know newscast at BBC.co.uk. |
| 1:29.6 | Actually, know what? |
| 1:30.9 | Should we just widen it out to all our lives? |
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