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David Dimbleby

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Legendary broadcaster and former presenter of BBC Question Time, David Dimbleby, chats to Adam about Iraq, the seductive quality of podcasting and the future of the BBC.

And Chris Mason lobbies to keep his creepy outro. #DontLoseTheOoze

Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Frankie Tobi and Alix Pickles Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.7

Hello, we're joined today by David Dimbleby.

0:06.5

Hello David.

0:07.5

Adam, hello.

0:08.5

Now, as you are to political discussion shows, I am to the light-hearted quiz if that's not too grand for me to say

0:15.7

so I thought we'd start with a little quiz for you and it's got a bit of a theme I hate quizzes I really

0:20.4

hate quizzes you're gonna just say I'm a very very competitive person and I don't do quizzes.

0:26.0

I'm famous in the family.

0:28.5

I can never play any games of any kind,

0:31.3

because either I cheat or I get cross.

0:33.2

Well, the good thing is this is more of...

0:35.2

With that warning.

0:36.2

Yeah, well, this is actually less of a quiz and more of a like a rhetorical device

0:39.3

as all will become clear and hopefully the theme emerges.

0:42.0

You weren't being frank in the first emerges. Well, anyway, right, let's push on.

0:47.0

So, question one.

0:49.0

What did you famously say on the night of the referendum when the result became clear.

0:55.0

We're out.

0:56.0

We're out.

0:57.0

Correct.

0:58.0

Now, imagine somebody said,

1:00.0

have we got any dishwasher tablets and you didn't have any.

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