Electioncast: Getting The Message?!
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam is joined by Laura and Henry to look at the final 72 hours until the exit poll.
It’s three days to go until the election and the parties are scattered across the country. But what are the key messages they’ll be repeating, up until they all go quiet on polling day? And what’s the strategy behind those stunts and slogans?
And we hear from Newscasters who want to know the key moments to watch out for on election night.
And, more Remoter Voters - including our highest voter yet?!
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming, Laura Kuenssberg and Henry Zeffman. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. 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. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello Henry. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | And hello Laura, fresh from the rehearsal for the school show. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, I don't know very fresh, I've been locked in the basement all day. |
| 0:13.0 | Metaphorically, not actually locked. |
| 0:15.0 | How is it going for the big election night program? |
| 0:17.0 | I'm not going to tell you that's going to be very... |
| 0:20.0 | Well, I was going... |
| 0:21.0 | I mean everyone knows that you're allowed to have rehearsals, that's not a secret, is it? |
| 0:23.2 | Well that's true, and I was going to see I can't tell you about the studio, but actually we showed the studio on the |
| 0:26.6 | teller yesterday, so yes, the studio looks amazing. |
| 0:29.1 | Where is it on the snaizometer from 0 to 10. 0 to 10. |
| 0:35.0 | Good. |
| 0:36.0 | Right, okay. |
| 0:37.0 | Where would I put the remoter-voter theme tune on the snaizometer? |
| 0:41.0 | Probably like about a six or seven actually. |
| 0:43.4 | I think it gets a scale of its own. |
| 0:45.1 | I love it. |
| 0:46.1 | Let's play. |
| 0:47.1 | This is our game where you explain why you had to get a postal vote because you're not going to be at home in the 4th of July |
| 0:59.0 | and you get categorized into remote voter, somebody who's just a stone throw from home, or you're a remoter voter or you're the remotest |
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