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Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at the Gaza ceasefire talks and Ukraine’s shock incursion into Russia.

To discuss the future of the two conflicts, Adam and Paddy are joined by chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet and security correspondent Gordon Correra.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Tim Walklate with Sam McLaren. The technical producers were Mike Regaard and Phillip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Paddy, all-star cast today for the episode of newscast that was on Radio 4.
0:08.7	Yes, because we had two of our most experienced BBC people.
0:14.3	You're talking about them like they're not here.
0:15.5	They're still here.
0:16.5	Well, are they here?
0:18.8	They are here.
0:19.8	I feel their presence is happening.
0:21.6	I just think this is what like it so I mean faint praise can't you describe
0:25.9	Gordon and I better experience obviously we could be like making a
0:31.2	complete hash of it but but it is experienced.
0:33.5	But I feel the presence of you all the time, Lisa, no matter where I go.
0:36.7	Leistusette and Gordon Carrear is the names I was looking for.
0:39.2	Yes, a security correspondent.
0:41.6	So can I pitch you the latest newscast gimmick we've got? It's
0:45.2	called newscast of thousands. Oh and so the aim is to get to the number 1000 and
0:51.0	the way we get there is by new casters sending in either news stories or things
0:56.0	from their own lives that have a number attached, and then we add, each day we add an extra
1:01.1	number up until we get to 1 thousand. You're looking skeptical.
1:04.5	Well I'm just thinking that to pay for it to work as a feature you don't want people to
1:08.1	send in a thousand first do you want to over deliver? You don't want to over deliver.
1:11.9	So you're looking for two great people in our studio.
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