Electioncast: The End Is In Sight?
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today marks one week until the end of the 2024 General Election campaign - so we?re looking back at the defining moments so far.
Adam is joined by Lucy Fisher, Financial Times? Whitehall Editor, John Stevens, The Mirror?s Political Editor, and Ben Riley-Smith, The Telegraph?s Political Editor. They discuss the moments they?ll remember from this General Election, as well as what they hear about plans being drawn up for what could happen after the results are in.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, what are you doing next Thursday? |
| 0:08.2 | Do you fancy watching the election night program with Laura and Clive and Chris with me on a beanbag in the BBC Radio Theatre? |
| 0:15.8 | I mean, it makes it sound like we'll be sharing one beanbag. |
| 0:18.8 | There will be multiple beanbags and multiple sofas and some seats and some snacks. But we're hosting the newscast all-nighter, which is our |
| 0:27.0 | contribution to the election coverage. We're basically, we're just going to watch the election |
| 0:30.4 | coverage and talk about it. As you see, we've got very low effort solution there. You can still apply to come and join us. If you go to the BBC |
| 0:41.7 | website and search for the shows and tours page, you can then apply for a ticket. And we can't |
| 0:49.4 | guarantee that everyone will get to come, but there is still an opportunity to try and come |
| 0:53.4 | and spend election night |
| 0:54.8 | with us. It's going to be a big night. And don't worry, there will be some refreshments to see |
| 0:59.9 | us through the 12 hours. And I went to go and chat to some of the people who are organizing it |
| 1:07.0 | today and it actually made me quite excited. It sounds ner to, it sounds nerdy, but I think it's |
| 1:10.8 | actually going to be really fun. Nerdy and fun sounds like an episode of Newscast. Let's do one. |
| 1:16.0 | Newscast from the BBC. People do call me for short. Jenny Lek. Polling day will be on Thursday |
| 1:22.4 | the 4th of July. No way. Thank God about time. It's going to be a very long six weeks. I was wringing |
| 1:28.9 | me underpants out. Something in Downing Street. Campaigns can feel very long and new voters can be a |
| 1:34.6 | volatile bunch. Hello, it's Adam in the studio and I'm joined by a trio of newspaper journalists, |
| 1:40.0 | except they're also all podcasters as well now. We've got Lucy Fisher from the Financial Times, |
| 1:43.8 | who does. |
| 1:44.9 | The Political Fix podcast, twice a week at the moment for the election. |
| 1:48.1 | Excellent. |
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