Electioncast: How did Sunak's D-Day blunder happen?
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today Adam, Laura and Henry talk Sunak’s D-Day blunder, and the 7-way TV debate that followed it.
Henry also talks about receiving a letter from the chief Treasury civil servant disputing the Conservatives’ £2000 tax claim.
And we lookahead to manifesto launches next week.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So we're doing something fancy. |
| 0:06.3 | Oh yes, so, right, okay. |
| 0:08.6 | Let's just reveal to newscasters what's just happened. |
| 0:11.0 | We did our inaugural live episode of newscast on Radio 4. We were |
| 0:16.3 | sandwiched in between two very brainy documentaries about George Orwell and France |
| 0:21.5 | Kapta. |
| 0:23.3 | Two of my favorite authors. |
| 0:24.2 | Have you read in Kaffa, either of you or Orwell? |
| 0:26.9 | Yeah, I read lots of Orwell. |
| 0:28.8 | I read animal farm at school, I think that's about. |
| 0:30.8 | I've read, I've read an essay, I came free with a new thing. |
| 0:35.0 | That an espadistro. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh Laura's just pointing to the fake plant in the studio and keeping the esperistro flying. The funniest thing about that though is when you're on |
| 0:46.0 | radio four you do actually feel that you have to behave. Do you not feel that? |
| 0:52.1 | Well no I rely on like, I love all our audiences wherever they are. |
| 0:57.0 | But the funniest thing though... |
| 0:58.0 | Squierest thing I've ever said. |
| 1:00.0 | The funniest thing is though, that the Radio 4 continuity announcers, which is called Con, actually it was our friend |
| 1:07.6 | Ron was doing it. So it was actually quite weird being introduced by our mate. |
| 1:11.3 | And then you're like, no, got to remember, on the radio, it's not just hanging out. like no got to remember on the radio it's not just |
| 1:13.4 | hanging out oh was it actually on the radio it was yes I thought that was just a pilot |
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