Summary
The plot thickens for the PM. Adam, Laura and Chris sketch out the Westminster characters, subplots and potential sequels, as talk of rats and flats continues. Also, how does it feel to pick up Hollywood’s most prestigious award? We speak to our very own Oscar winner!
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Danny Wittenberg and Alix Pickles. The Studio Director was Mike Regaard. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I didn't stay up late and watch the Oscars this time. |
| 0:09.3 | Which I slightly regret because the bits I've seen of it throughout the day, it looked more like a night in a speakeasy |
| 0:16.0 | than a big glitzy award ceremony, and I'm sure at one point at the corner of my eye I saw a clip of Glen Close |
| 0:27.4 | twirking. But the really good news is that we can offer our congratulations to one of our BBC colleagues who has won an Oscar and a colleague is Alice Doyer, a BBC journalist who works in the Paris Bureau |
| 0:38.0 | who has won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short for her film, Colette. |
| 0:43.6 | And Elise is on the phone now. |
| 0:45.1 | Hello, Elise. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello, hello, Adam. |
| 0:47.8 | Champagne hangover? |
| 0:49.4 | Not hung over, but I drunk Champagne |
| 0:51.8 | to celebrate this very emotional moment. |
| 0:55.2 | Oh congratulations. |
| 0:57.2 | You're right it was a very it was a very interesting ceremony yesterday. |
| 1:03.0 | Normally there's thousands of people attending the ceremony. |
| 1:07.0 | Yesterday night we were 140, something like this. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm very sorry, I haven't had a chance to watch Colette yet, but I'm going to this week. |
| 1:18.0 | What is the what's the concept behind it? What am I going to get? |
| 1:22.0 | The story of Colette is a 90 years old French |
| 1:27.6 | resistant called Colette Marancatrine. she lost her brother during World War II. He was also a resistant and got arrested by the Gestapo and deported to a concentration camp. |
| 1:44.0 | She obviously was very wounded by this loss |
| 1:48.0 | and decided not to never go to Germany, |
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