Summary
Labour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, faced heckles during his first in-person conference speech… Comedian Susie McCabe shares some tips on how to deal with it, and Adam, Laura, and Chris catch up on how it went.
Also, criminology professor, James Treadwell, talks us through the history of protesting. It's after climate change activists, Insulate Britain’s, defiance of a court order by blocking part of the M25 today.
Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey, with producers Georgia Coan and Soila Apparicio. The studio director was Emma Crowe. Sam Bonham was the assistant editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I've hot-footed it back from Brighton to the normal newscast studio. |
| 0:08.9 | The big highlight of the party conference today was Cure Starmer, doing his leader's |
| 0:13.5 | speech. |
| 0:14.5 | The first one of those he's done in a convention centre with loads of activists cheering |
| 0:18.6 | and it turns out quite a lot of Jeremy Corbyn's supporters heckling him, let's hear how |
| 0:24.3 | he did. |
| 0:25.3 | So, so, so you see, shouting slogans or changing lives conference. |
| 0:37.3 | Ah, the best kind of heckle, one that allows you to give your actual Cure message in another |
| 0:44.5 | way again. |
| 0:45.5 | Anyway, we've now got a professional heckler dealer with on the podcast notes, the comedian |
| 0:50.6 | Suzy McKaype. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello, Suzy. |
| 0:52.6 | Hello, Adam. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm Gitt. |
| 0:55.6 | Did you have a nice two hours at lunchtime watching Cure Starmer's speech? |
| 0:58.3 | It was very long. |
| 0:59.7 | Yes. |
| 1:00.7 | It was very long. |
| 1:02.7 | But to be fair, he has a lot to cover. |
| 1:05.5 | Yes. |
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