Keir Starmer’s interview - the analysis
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Amol and Nick with their take on Keir Starmer’s first Today interview since becoming PM and behind the scenes insights about what it’s like doing big political interviews.
Plus, Ruby Wax drops in for Moment of the Week.
You can hear more of Amol’s conversation with Ruby Wax in a bonus episode that will drop on Saturday morning.
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Amol and Nick are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before and was also ITV’s political editor.
The senior producers were Lewis Vickers and Tom Smithard, the producer was Hatty Nash, the editor was Louisa Lewis and the executive producer was Owenna Griffiths. Technical production from Ben Andrews and digital production from Charlie Henry.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We get it. Life is busy. You want to keep up with the news, but there's just too much going on. |
| 0:06.9 | Which is where Newscast comes in. We do the work, and when you're ready to dig deeper into the day's news, you just pop us into your ears. |
| 0:14.8 | It does mean we have to put in the hard work, though. |
| 0:17.5 | Listen to Newscast every day on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:21.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:25.1 | Well, well, well, there he is, the real star of the Labour conference. |
| 0:28.0 | The man the whole country has been waiting to hear from. |
| 0:30.9 | And indeed we did this morning at 10 past 8, and the day before. |
| 0:34.5 | And the day before, you must be knackard. |
| 0:37.2 | You're starting to get a bit weary of it, to be honest, but yes, I am knacken. |
| 0:40.6 | Because the thing about conference coverage is you get up as early as we normally do at |
| 0:46.0 | Harper's 3 to do your thing, but all the action at conference happens in the evening. |
| 0:52.2 | And so you find yourself having to stay up late to interview people or to go to the parties |
| 0:58.1 | or to have the chat about what's really going on. |
| 1:01.0 | And you don't get nearly enough sleep. |
| 1:02.9 | Did you partake of the older alcoholic substances this meeting? |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah, I did, but not a huge amount. |
| 1:09.0 | You know, I mean, there was a big mirror party. |
| 1:11.6 | There always is at the Labour Party conference. You can tell who was there, because West |
| 1:15.6 | treating when he came to give his speech as health secretary on the morning after that party before, |
| 1:22.8 | looked and sounded like he might lose his voice altogether. |
| 1:27.3 | This is all after the interview of the week, |
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