In a bit of a Pickles
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The latest developments in the lobbying story.
Laura and Adam discuss the latest developments in the lobbying story as Lord Pickles gives evidence to the Commons public administration committee. They speak to Sir Michael Barber, the man tasked with reviewing government delivery about Boris Johnson's priorities. And Health Editor Hugh Pym tells Adam how one hospital’s efforts to keep services running through the second wave of COVID could be the key to tackling the growing NHS waiting lists.
Today’s Newscast was made by Emma Close with Ben Cooper, Alix Pickles and Sam Bonham. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's shaping up to be the legal ding dong of the decade. |
| 0:08.4 | MNS is taking Aldi to court, claiming they have infringed the copyright of Colin the Caterpillar, their famous cake. |
| 0:16.2 | Now I've admit I've never had a call in the Caterpillar cake. That is going to change now here on |
| 0:22.0 | newscast right now as I found out what all the fuss is about. |
| 0:25.6 | Of course they'd sold out the full size one so we've got a miniature one. |
| 0:29.1 | Here's the moment of the truth, my first ever calling the Caterpillar cake. |
| 0:39.0 | Are you telling me it's basically just a Swiss roll? All this fuss over these, all these years is about basically a Swiss roll. |
| 0:44.0 | It's tasty. |
| 0:46.0 | A great moment in confection journalism history. |
| 0:51.0 | Never have chocolate before broadcasting is what they used to say. Wish me luck with this edition of Newscast. |
| 0:57.0 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:04.5 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:07.2 | There have been 300,000 and 34,974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:14.5 | The reason we could never be who we wanted |
| 1:18.8 | is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:21.3 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello it's Adam in the studio and it's Hugh in new broadcasting house in the basement. |
| 1:28.6 | And Laura's going to pop in in a bit because there's some political news and she and I have been talking to the guru who's been |
| 1:34.9 | brought into number 10 to help Boris Johnson deliver his program for the country. |
| 1:41.2 | And one of the things he's going to have to achieve is getting down those |
| 1:43.8 | massive waiting lists in the NHS in England hue of which we've got more data |
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