Summary
It’s all over for the X Factor after 17 years, so we thought we’d get 2017 winners Rak Su to reminisce. As the number of self-isolation pings sent by the NHS Covid-19 app in England and Wales rises to a new record, our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is here to tell us what else is going on with NHS apps. And we’re talking about the weather, or more importantly, the climate. A new report says recent weather events are caused by ‘disruptive climate change’ so we asked Professor Liz Bentley - head of the Royal Meteorological Society – to explain what it all means. This Newscast was made by Caitlin Hanrahan with producers Rick Kelsey and Alix Pickles. The editor is Dino Sofos.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's off the twig, it's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, |
| 0:09.8 | it's an X, X factor. The singing competition is no longer going to be shown on I-TV. It's all over. |
| 0:19.0 | Simon Cow has confirmed. Now let's talk about what this means for music, TV, the world with these guys. |
| 0:30.0 | The now reveal the winner of the X-backed of 2017 is. |
| 0:45.0 | Raxu. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, that's Raxu. Yeah, that's Raxu winning in 2017, and we've got half of the band now. It's Ashley and |
| 0:56.0 | Jamal. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello, you two. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey, how are you doing? |
| 0:59.4 | Actually quite enjoying reministing about X-factor. |
| 1:02.2 | Just take us back to that moment when you're on the stage and there's all the lights and there's Dermit and there's Simon and everyone's cheering and you've won. |
| 1:10.0 | It was very nerve-wracking because they took forever to tell us who won or who hadn't won. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, it was kind of, it was very surreal. Like, I don't think we kind of comprehended what it meant until, well for me personally |
| 1:26.2 | until a few weeks after because you go from winning the show to kind of seeing your friends and family for like after party after |
| 1:36.0 | winning the show and then the next day you go on something called Winners Week which is |
| 1:40.4 | basically up at six and just crazy for seven days you're in radio you're on |
| 1:47.2 | TV you're doing everything so yeah a couple of weeks afterwards I think it kind of |
| 1:52.0 | sunk in and it was like yeah you know that was kind of cool. |
| 1:54.8 | And Ashley does it change your life forever or does it just change it really dramatically for a bit? |
| 1:59.5 | I think it depends on how well you can navigate the industry and how much you develop your craft. |
| 2:06.8 | Obviously your life changes dramatically, like immediately and overnight, and I think the challenge after that is then like okay |
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