Summary
In this Newscast, Adam is joined by BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew and tennis commentator Katie Smith to talk about how the crowds reacted when Just Stop Oil stopped play at the Ashes and Wimbledon. And the managing director of Silverstone, hosting this weekend’s Formula 1, tells Adam that the British Grand Prix is pulling out the stops to prevent any attempts to invade the circuit.
And drinks journalist Alice Lascelles from the Financial Times celebrates the this summer’s cocktail - the Hugo Spritz.
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Today's Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming. It was made by Fiona Leach with Rufus Grey and Alex Collins. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, you know me, |
| 0:06.2 | an excuse to recapture the Eurovision vibe. I'm a |
| 0:09.2 | got an excuse today and an excuse to play the Eurovision cast music. |
| 0:15.3 | Because we're joined by Gunan from Eurovision cast Mark, the announcement of where Eurovision |
| 0:20.4 | 2024 is going to be held. Hello. Hi. So Liverpool is handing over to? |
| 0:26.2 | Marmo is Sweden. And how do you feel about that? You know, I'm really excited, you know, |
| 0:31.8 | because I think Marmo seems like the perfect choice. Have you been on the Wikipedia to get all the |
| 0:38.0 | Marmo facts? A little bit, a little bit. I think I've got a lot more to dig in deep. I think I've |
| 0:44.4 | got a few facts. But you've got to be on the ground to know how Marmo really functions. |
| 0:50.7 | So I'm just looking now, larger city in the Swedish county of Skurna, the third |
| 0:57.4 | largest city in Sweden after Stockholm and Gothenburg, the sixth largest city in the Nordic region |
| 1:03.6 | with a municipal population of 357,377. And another part that I love is about the bins. So |
| 1:14.1 | apparently they've got tock and bins that have kind of naughty messages and it's opposed to |
| 1:19.8 | this courage people from the litter and now we need something like that in Liverpool. So I, |
| 1:24.1 | you know me, I love it, but that's a little bit, a little bit naughty. And it's got the museum |
| 1:30.4 | of Disgusting Food. I've went to Marmo a few years ago and for me it's biggest claim to famous, |
| 1:37.4 | it's where that really long bridge star, which was actually the star of the TV show The Bridge. |
| 1:42.6 | So I've never been to Marmo. So if I do get the chance to go, there'll be food, |
| 1:49.4 | music and a lot of glitter, a lot of glitter. But I hate the really, they're really posed and |
| 1:59.0 | they're not like sculls, so I wonder how they'll take me. |
| 2:04.5 | Your words not mine. And Gunaan has the Eurovision buzz worn off in Liverpool or can you still |
| 2:11.0 | kind of sense it a bit? Or you can still sense it, definitely sense it. We are still coming down from |
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