Summary
Why are temperatures soaring around the world?
Amol Rajan comes on Newscast to talk about his new job as host of University Challenge and gives us his thoughts on the BBC presenter scandal after a week of allegations in the media.
And the BBC’s Climate Editor, Justin Rowlatt, dials in from Spain to bring us the latest news from Europe’s heatwave. Eleni Myrivili, the United Nation’s Chief Heat Officer, joins him to discuss how societies must adapt to higher temperatures.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by George Dabby with Miranda Slade, Gemma Roper and Alex Collins. The technical producer was Frank McWeeny. The senior news editor was Damon Rose.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.7 | BBC Newscast |
| 0:06.8 | Asking the questions... |
| 0:08.7 | Adam Fleming |
| 0:10.1 | But, boom, yes, we've got the new host of University Challenge here in the studio. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm all Roger, hello. |
| 0:15.1 | How are you doing? |
| 0:15.9 | I'm very well-thank you. What was it like stepping into Paxmans? |
| 0:18.4 | Well, you don't step into his shoes. You sit in his chair. |
| 0:20.4 | Sit in his chair. Well, the main thing that was dawned was meeting Roger Tillig. |
| 0:23.8 | You know, I mean, I know you've had Roger in this podcast before. |
| 0:26.1 | Roger, I was more star-strap by Roger Tillig. |
| 0:28.3 | I was more star-strap by Roger Tillig than I was by even Hillary Clinton. |
| 0:31.9 | I thought Roger Tillig is such an icon in public life in this country. |
| 0:35.7 | And I was one of many people who, until I met him, |
| 0:38.8 | on my less than successful outing as a contestant, |
| 0:42.8 | I sort of wondered if he was built into the buzzer system. |
| 0:46.2 | But it turns out Roger Tillig is this incredibly handsome, funny, |
| 0:51.5 | so six, I think it's about six, five or six, six, six. |
| 0:53.9 | Real person that sits there and does the voices. |
| 0:57.2 | And the most unbelievably weird thing is that he lives about 100 yards from my parents' old house in South London. |
| 1:03.7 | Very, very weird coincidence. But it was wonderful. |
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