Electioncast: David Dimbleby on Election Night Fever

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On the last full day of campaigning, legendary broadcaster David Dimbleby joins Newscast.

Adam, David and Alex discuss the issues the country faces whoever wins the election, what to expect on Thursday night and what David really thinks about exit polls…

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Miranda Slade, Gemma Roper and Sam Mclaren The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, it's the last day of campaigning in the UK's general election of 2024.
0:10.4	And this is a big moment, and we wanted to mark it in a big way on newscast.
0:14.4	So we've been doing a six hour long live podcast on BBC Sounds.
0:20.4	We've been joined by friends of the podcast and some amazing guests just to Mark just what a crazy energetic huge moment this is and one of the guests was David Dimbleby who presented election night for decades and question time for decades
0:38.0	and has been on newscast a few times before and every time he's been on
0:42.0	it's been great. So here is a
0:43.8	bonus episode of newscast on the last day of the election campaign with the
0:48.2	thoughts past, present and future of the legend that is David Dimbleby.
0:52.6	Newscast.
0:53.6	Newscast from the BBC.
0:55.2	People do call me for short.
0:56.8	Jenny elect.
0:57.4	Holing day will be on Thursday the 4th of July.
1:00.6	No way.
1:02.1	Thank God about town. It's going to be a very long six weeks. I was ringing
1:05.9	my underpamps out. Souther the Downing Stream. Campaigns can feel very long and you voters can be a volatile bunch.
1:13.0	Good morning.
1:14.0	Thank you for joining us.
1:15.0	We're doing six hours of this live podcast,
1:18.0	which for you doing an election night,
1:20.0	which is probably like about 10 or 12th.
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