Summary
Former tennis champion Boris Becker has been jailed over his bankruptcy. The BBC’s tennis correspondent, Russell Fuller, joins Adam to discuss the ruling and the German star’s fall from grace.
Also…. businesswoman and Dragons’ Den star, Deborah Meaden, tells us why she’s campaigning to make the upcoming Jubilee bank holiday a permanent fixture.
And… Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, gives Adam advice on how to edit his own wiki page, and discusses Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Cordelia Hemming, Miranda Slade and Ben Cooper. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, some newscasters got in touch about our skit the other day there about the vampire |
| 0:09.1 | devices which suck your energy while they're on standby not doing very much. |
| 0:13.7 | Well we went back and listened to an old episode of Morra Less which covered this and it turns |
| 0:18.0 | out that yes some devices do suck up your energy while they're not doing very much but |
| 0:23.3 | there are quite big question marks over just how much and how much it costs you and how |
| 0:28.4 | much it's changed over time. |
| 0:30.8 | There were notice no one complained about our list of vampires which is entirely fictional. |
| 0:36.0 | On with this episode of newscast. |
| 0:39.0 | Newscast from the baby say that we'll take some time before we figure out what our new |
| 0:44.0 | normal is. |
| 0:45.0 | Now if that is the argument then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 0:49.3 | Combined with contract tasting, contact tasting, tortesting, tracing food. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm a vegan so of course I don't like meatballs. |
| 0:59.7 | Next slide please. |
| 1:00.7 | Blair Blair Blair, lose, lose, lose, lose. |
| 1:05.5 | Hello it's Adam in the studio and shortly I'll be joined virtually by Deborah Medin from |
| 1:09.8 | Dragon's Den who is campaigning for us to get an extra bank holiday on the eve of the |
| 1:14.3 | next bank holiday and you also might be able to help me with a slightly delicate personal |
| 1:20.6 | issue or will be revealed. |
| 1:23.4 | But first of all Boris Becker, the tennis ace has been sentenced to two and a half years |
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