Hip-Hop Happy Birthday
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Broadcasting legend Trevor Nelson celebrates 50 years of hip-hop. He chats to Adam about the early days of hip-hop, his stand-out tracks and the impact the music has had on popular culture.
The BBC's Ben Chu and the FT’s Yuan Yang talk about the Chinese economy. What is going wrong and should the rest of the world be worried?
00:00 - Steps count 02:23 - Chinese economy 14:43 - Cost of living 16:16 - 50 years of hip-hop
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, how many steps does it take to listen to an episode of newscast? |
| 0:09.4 | Let's find out. |
| 0:10.7 | As you are asking yesterday, I listened to newscast this morning walking around |
| 0:16.4 | Fleet Pond with my golden retriever, Basil. |
| 0:19.2 | I was walking around Stanford University grinds, which are absolutely gorgeous, |
| 0:25.0 | and I walked 2,630 steps. |
| 0:29.2 | I had two episodes to catch up on, which totaled 59 minutes, |
| 0:33.9 | and together they lasted for 6,750 pages. |
| 0:38.9 | That includes a few pages I lost because Basil decided to do a push-top. |
| 0:43.5 | Whilst listening to newscast this morning, I managed just 1,760 steps, |
| 0:48.5 | but I was mind the lawn and so couldn't walk my usual pace. |
| 0:51.4 | Now, if you were talking about research that says that |
| 0:55.2 | doing more than 3,967 steps a day can boost your health, |
| 1:01.9 | I was just wondering if you could increase the length of newscast |
| 1:05.5 | to about 34 minutes and 40 seconds for the good of the dog walking newscast |
| 1:11.2 | listening stamina oozing public. |
| 1:13.5 | I get my step counting listening to newscast whilst walking my dog |
| 1:18.0 | around the beach area yesterday morning coming across a male first seal, |
| 1:23.8 | which I've passed within about, I would say about 3 feet. |
| 1:27.2 | This morning's episode took me all of 2,150 steps whilst I walked the dog, |
| 1:32.5 | but more often than not, I run 5k, which is near 5,000 steps. |
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