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BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Find out which cabinet minister won’t be snogging under the mistletoe.

Adam, Laura and Chris mull over what really happened at a Downing Street gathering last Christmas.

Also, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says he won’t be cancelling festive events and warns Chris to back off over criticism of the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square.

Today’s Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg, Ros Jones and Vicky Farncombe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

So you know other programs this time of year,

0:07.0

they have like an Advent calendar,

0:08.5

where it's an opportunity to play their best bits

0:10.6

of the year gone by.

0:11.9

So the today program did Billy Connelly today

0:14.2

that they spoke to earlier this year.

0:15.5

Lovely, although nothing can ever be better

0:17.3

than the blue Peter making their advent hanging thing

0:20.4

overcoat hanger, but I'm aging myself by saying that,

0:22.7

but I have really happy memories of watching that.

0:25.0

I know I'd love to do a craft based version,

0:26.6

but we're gonna do our own typically rubbish newscast version,

0:29.6

which is called the Bad Vent Calendar,

0:31.7

where people suggest our most cringy moments

0:34.0

throughout the year.

0:34.8

Which is a good idea,

0:35.8

because that's guaranteed to find at least 25, isn't it?

0:37.7

Exactly.

0:38.7

We've been doing the Christmas Day episode.

0:41.3

Anyway, yesterday it was me

0:43.0

asking a really cringy question to Boris Johnson.

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