Electioncast: Pebbledash Semis and Dribbling
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam and Chris discuss Keir Starmer’s first major speech of the general election campaign and the latest on Rishi Sunak’s plan to bring back national service for 18-year-olds.
The Labour leader delivered a speech which included a detailed account of his upbringing as well as plans for national security.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak showed off his football skills while he continued his campaign by returning to his plan to bring back national service for teenagers.
The Liberal Democrats’ were on the road with Ed Davey making his way north to Scotland, with the SNP’s John Swinney campaigning in Dumfries. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Elliot Ryder. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Chris, hello. |
| 0:06.6 | Hello? |
| 0:07.6 | We're about to have two newscast election cast milestones. |
| 0:10.5 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:11.5 | Number one, your first broadcast from a pub beer garden. Yeah that's right |
| 0:17.1 | certainly on newscaster as far as I can record I don't think I've been in a pub |
| 0:20.1 | beer garden before I mean I'm impressed you've got all your work done and you've clocked off already this early. public second milestone is we're about to unveil the new newscast election themed opening title montage. |
| 0:35.8 | Ooh, are we? I'm excited about this. My ears are peeled towards listening intently on the headphones so I can hear it. |
| 0:44.4 | Should I give you a little bit of a briefing of the creative direction in which we've gone? |
| 0:47.8 | Oh please do, yes, I've loved that. |
| 0:49.4 | So still got the classic newscast music. Good. Still got the classic newscast music, |
| 0:52.8 | good, still got the classic newscast format of having lots of clips that together are quite funny. |
| 0:58.8 | Good, but none of the clips are of politicians. |
| 1:03.0 | They're all either of friends of the podcast, |
| 1:08.0 | members of the newscast family, |
| 1:10.0 | or just normal voting people. |
| 1:13.6 | As you're saying, you can attach me as to who they all are. |
| 1:17.2 | Well, no, because you haven't met them all. |
| 1:18.4 | You haven't met literally every voter in Britain. |
| 1:19.8 | No, I know, but your quizzes are never always entirely fast. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, I weren't all. |
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