Summary
GCSE grades are out and they show a growing regional divide in England. Adam is joined by BBC Education correspondent Hazel Shearing, and Sam Freedman, senior fellow at the Institute for Government, to chew over the results.
UK households will soon find out how much their bills will rise when the new energy price cap is announced on Friday. Claer Barrett, the consumer editor at the Financial Times, answers your questions on energy costs.
And presenter Scott Mills hangs up his Radio 1 headphones for the last time.
Today’s episode was produced by Clare Williamson with Natalie Ktena and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, many a tear was shared this afternoon as Scott Mills and Chris Stark departed Radio |
| 0:11.6 | One. |
| 0:12.8 | And you'll remember they were on the podcast earlier in the week when we were talking about |
| 0:16.4 | whether there would be a permanent named memorial to them in the BBC buildings. |
| 0:22.5 | Do you have a meeting room yet? |
| 0:24.1 | Because this is another BBC thing, all the meeting rooms have names. |
| 0:26.8 | So I'm about to go and have a meeting in Mary Berry. |
| 0:28.8 | Are you? |
| 0:29.8 | There isn't like, there isn't. |
| 0:30.8 | There's not a Fleming? |
| 0:31.8 | No, no, no. |
| 0:32.8 | I thought you were in Fleming. |
| 0:34.8 | I thought you would have to have passed to have a room that Mary still with us. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:41.0 | Will you say something on newscast, it then happens in the real world because partway through |
| 0:46.0 | Chris and Scott's final show and Thursday afternoon, the operations manager, burst into |
| 0:50.6 | the studio with this news. |
| 0:52.2 | No, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:53.7 | Just going to just going to pass you, pass you this plaque. |
| 0:57.8 | This is, it's the real thing. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah. |
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