Summary
More than a dozen protesters have been arrested for driving too slowly during demonstrations over rising fuel prices. The BBC’s Katy Austin steers Adam and Chris through what’s been happening.
Branwen Jeffreys is back on the podcast to explain why rising food prices are changing what’s on the menu in the school canteen.
And ahead of his Mastermind appearance, Adam gets quizzed on his specialist subject by Bond villain David Meyer.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Cordelia Hemming, Alix Pickles and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I'm recording this episode of newscast late afternoon on Monday and I'm in the BBC's |
| 0:11.0 | Belfast offices. |
| 0:13.0 | And the reason I'm here is because I'm recording an episode of Mastermind with Friend of the |
| 0:18.9 | podcast Clive Marry. |
| 0:21.2 | Now I am allowed to tell you that my specialist subject is James Bond films The Roger Murrer |
| 0:29.2 | Years. |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, basically from my revision I just have to watch a load of films. |
| 0:33.1 | It's brilliant. |
| 0:34.1 | But I thought I could do with a bit of preparation because the producers do advise you to do a |
| 0:39.2 | bit of preparation. |
| 0:40.6 | So I've tracked down an actual Bond villain from the Roger Murrer era. |
| 0:47.0 | Quite a minor Bond villain, it has to be said, but I don't know if you've seen Octopacy |
| 0:51.0 | from 1983 and it's got a circus theme and two of the baddies are some twins who throw |
| 0:59.5 | a load of knives and there's some quite iconic scenes with them. |
| 1:03.2 | And one of the nice throwing twins is David Meyer who came into the newscast you do a couple |
| 1:07.3 | of days ago to help me out. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello David. |
| 1:10.0 | Hi. |
| 1:11.0 | I see you've got a bit of paper there. |
| 1:12.0 | Is that some quiz questions? |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, I don't know the answers to them myself, some of them, but I've got them written |
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