CrisisCast: Escaped prisoner, School Concrete and THAT kiss
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Chris and Adam speak about the escaped prisoner and the on-going issue of RAAC in schools.
For more on the government’s handling of concrete, Adam is joined by hosts of the new BBC Sounds podcast When It Hits the Fan, crisis PR gurus David Yelland and Simon Lewis.
They also chat about Spain’s World Cup Kiss with Spanish lawyer Miriam González Durántez. What does the story say about the country’s treatment of women?
02:31 Terror suspect escapes from prison 07:22 Chris Mason’s take on PMQs as concrete dominates 13:57 PR Guru’s David Yelland and Simon Lewis break down the RAAC PR crisis 20:37 Spain’s World Cup kiss and what it means for the country
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Chris, I was thinking the other day, |
| 0:06.1 | do you remember when we were having that conversation about, |
| 0:07.8 | has the concrete crisis actually reached crisis level? |
| 0:10.7 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:11.6 | When is a mess a crisis or a crisis a mess? |
| 0:14.0 | Exactly, so we're going to do an episode about crises. |
| 0:16.5 | Oh. |
| 0:17.5 | And then I'm trying to think how we could call the title, |
| 0:19.7 | something like, Chris, what, Chris? |
| 0:21.7 | Something like that. |
| 0:22.6 | Great crisis, isn't it? |
| 0:23.7 | Chris, yeah, I see, I see, almost see where you're going there. |
| 0:26.5 | Do you, we've covered a few crises at our time, haven't we? |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, we have, although, I don't know, |
| 0:31.7 | I find myself being reluctant to use that word |
| 0:35.9 | unless I think it's justified, |
| 0:37.7 | because there's a kind of temptation as a journalist |
| 0:39.6 | to use it kind of all the time to reach for the superlative, |
| 0:43.2 | except if you use it all the time, |
| 0:44.4 | what do you use the week after when the situation's gone? |
| 0:46.1 | I know, because you have to automatically be interested |
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