Hollywood Strikes Back
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Culture editor Katie Razzall joins Adam to explain why, for the first time since the 1960s, both the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America are on strike. They also speak to the actor Brian Cox.
There’s more movie news as ‘Barbenheimer’ fever takes over the red carpet. BBC Radio 1’s in-house film critic Ali Plumb is on hand to tell us what’s behind the hype.
And friends of the pod Robert Peston and Steph McGovern talk about their own new podcast ‘The Rest Is Money’.
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Today's Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming. It was made by Fiona Leach with Alex Collins and Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, on today's episode, please can you let me indulge in one of my great passions, |
| 0:10.6 | cinema and films, because there's lots of things that we can talk about that are movie-related, |
| 0:16.2 | and to help us get started, kind of like the trailer before the main feature, if you |
| 0:20.6 | let me do a really rubbish cinema gag, is Radio One's film critic and the man who made |
| 0:25.5 | Harrison Ford cry. |
| 0:27.0 | Alli Plum, hello. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello, I feel like I should explain. |
| 0:29.9 | I was telling Harrison Ford how much he meant to us, film fans, Indiana Jones is a legend |
| 0:36.0 | of legends, and I just said to him, thank you very much. |
| 0:38.6 | And then he started welling up. |
| 0:39.8 | It's not like I, I don't know, you weren't like, but offensive or stole his jacket as he |
| 0:44.8 | went out into a cold storm. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, perfectly natural, wonderful moment. |
| 0:49.8 | I promise. |
| 0:51.5 | Just to be very clear, you were not bullying him. |
| 0:53.4 | It was, it was a lovely, it was a really nice moment. |
| 0:56.0 | And this follows after Tom Holland made you cry when he said that you were his favourite |
| 0:59.8 | interviewer. |
| 1:00.8 | So actually that's a lot of emotion around at the moment. |
| 1:04.3 | Right. |
| 1:05.3 | And Ali, tell me this phenomenon that has become known as barbenheimer. |
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