Summary
A national emergency is declared as the UK faces a record-breaking heatwave.
The Sunday Times health editor Shaun Lintern and rail expert Anna-Jane Hunter assess how the NHS and railways will cope if temperatures reach 40C next week.
And Adam discusses the US Capitol riot hearings with the BBC’s Anthony Zurcher and Alex Holder, director of Unprecedented. The documentary about President Trump has been used as evidence by the House of Representatives committee investigating what happened that day.
This episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Phil Marzouk and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, the newscast takeover of all airwaves everywhere is coming along nicely. |
| 0:10.8 | Dead Ringerus, for example, has finally started doing Christmas. |
| 0:15.6 | If that downing street is calling me right now, |
| 0:18.0 | so I'm going to take the call if that's okay. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay, Martha, I can confirm that Dylan, the Prime Minister's dog, has resigned with immediate effect. |
| 0:28.8 | Do we know what pushed him over the edge? |
| 0:31.2 | I think there was just a feeling around his camp that he couldn't in any good conscience |
| 0:36.0 | stay with the Prime Minister and still be a good boy. |
| 0:39.6 | And did he make his feelings known to the Prime Minister at all? |
| 0:43.6 | Hard to say, although apparently he walked into Boris Johnson's office |
| 0:47.6 | and curled out a large turd right on the carpet. |
| 0:50.8 | I've got no idea what that means in dog language. |
| 0:54.0 | Do you know what though? I remember when John Kulshaw actually came up |
| 0:58.4 | with his Christmas and impression on the spot many, many episodes ago on this podcast. |
| 1:03.2 | And actually, Chris was there and it's Half Brian Cox, |
| 1:07.2 | who was on newscast recently, and Half Alan Bennett, |
| 1:10.8 | who's very welcome on newscast anytime. |
| 1:12.4 | And he smushed the two together to get Chris Mason. |
| 1:16.0 | Dead Ringerus, you can listen to it on BBC Sounds |
| 1:18.4 | and you can listen to this episode of newscast, |
| 1:20.8 | which unfortunately doesn't have Chris Mason in it for once right now. |
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