Hard Day’s Strike

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On what’s thought to be the biggest single day of industrial action for a decade, we talk to Len McCluskey, the former leader of Britain’s biggest union, Unite. He tells Adam what he thinks Sir Keir Starmer should be doing differently in response, and how he’d be trying to use ‘leverage’ in negotiations. Adam also speaks to Americast presenter Sarah Smith about the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who died in Memphis last week after a beating by police. Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and was made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn, Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Damon Rose.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcast
0:04.1	Hello, welcome from the newscast Coffee Bar.
0:09.9	A little sight hustle I've got going.
0:11.9	No, we've set this up because there is an amazing story today from which the consumer
0:16.8	group who have sampled how much caffeine is in various high street coffee drinks and
0:22.5	the results are quite startling.
0:24.7	But not as amazing as the fact we've got a health correspondent called Catherine De Costa.
0:29.7	Hello.
0:30.7	Hi.
0:31.7	I bet you've heard all the jokes today, Catherine.
0:35.2	I'm sorry to be adding to them.
0:36.8	Right, so which of you put out this table which you and I both have in front of us?
0:40.8	Nothing like going out for a virtual coffee and bringing a spreadsheet.
0:45.1	So basically they looked at how much caffeine is in an espresso by volume and how much caffeine
0:50.6	is in a cappuccino by volume.
0:52.3	From caffeine to euro, costas, grags, pret and Starbucks.
0:55.6	How would you sum up what which found?
0:57.5	Well, huge variation.
0:59.8	If you take the espresso to start with, pret had the highest amount of caffeine at 180
1:05.5	milligrams and down at the bottom was Starbucks with 33 milligrams.
1:09.7	That's less than half a cup of tea.
1:12.6	If you look at cappuccinos, regular size cappuccino, the highest amount of caffeine was
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