Summary
Elon Musk finally completes his Twitter takeover.
Adam dives into what it means for the platform?s future with the BBC?s Technology editor, Zoe Kleinman, and Tim Higgins, author of ?Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century?.
And documentary film-maker Adam Curtis talks about raiding the BBC Moscow archives for his new series ?Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone?, and discusses the impact of the Soviet Union?s collapse on its citizens with the help of BBC Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg.
This episode of Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Alix Pickles and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Mike Regaard and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I think we really struck a nerve here with our love of municipal buildings, |
| 0:11.2 | which we referred to on the previous episode of Newscast. |
| 0:14.3 | William, who's one of our colleagues at BBC Radio York, got in touch, saying, |
| 0:18.1 | I do like the Stormont building, but want to let you know that the best |
| 0:21.2 | parliamentary slash governmental building in these islands, and that's crucial, is the wedding cake |
| 0:26.6 | building in my homeland of the Isle of Man. The chambers of the Tinwald, the Isle of Man Parliament, |
| 0:31.9 | are behind the wedding cake, and the Isle of Man government offices are up to the left of the |
| 0:36.3 | attached image, and he has attached a picture of it, which I'll tweet out and put it on Instagram so you can see it, |
| 0:42.8 | but the wedding cake is a deserved nickname. |
| 0:46.0 | Now, I actually didn't need an attached image for the wedding cake for the Tinwald, |
| 0:49.4 | because I've been there on my extensive travels across these islands |
| 0:53.4 | when I worked on the daily politics program |
| 0:55.7 | and I've recorded a couple of interviews in that building and I had a lovely trip to the island |
| 1:00.1 | man but it's been too long since I've been there and somebody who didn't leave the name message in |
| 1:04.1 | to nominate the Senate in Cardiff which of course is a stunning and very impressive building |
| 1:09.6 | if you've not looked up and please keep them coming I love this as a thing and very impressive building if you've not looked it up. And please keep them |
| 1:11.9 | coming. I love this as a thing. And I think it's governmental or local government or municipal |
| 1:18.1 | or civic buildings that we're talking about here, just to sort of narrow it down, but also keep |
| 1:23.0 | it quite broad. And if you can include a picture in your message, even better. I mean, |
| 1:28.0 | I've got a laptop. So if you don't, it's not the, even better. I mean, I've got a laptop, |
| 1:31.5 | so if you don't, it's not the end of the world. Right, let's catch up with what's been happening in this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. We will deliver, we will deliver, we will |
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