LIVE At Castfest: The Brexit Campaign 10 Years On
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, first recorded live at Castfest, Adam and Chris turn back the clock to 2016 and the lead up to the Brexit referendum.
They discuss how the referendum came about, and their memories from the campaign trail.
Plus Dr Katya Adler sends a special dispatch from a cake stand in Brussels!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, we've got a bank holiday treat for you. Do you remember a few months ago I came up with this idea, shout out to my Brex, where I thought, well, it's 10 years since the referendum on our membership of the EU. Why don't we relive that timeline in real time 10 years later |
| 0:22.1 | with the benefit of hindsight? Well, I think we did it once and then it got put on the very |
| 0:27.7 | back-back burner, but we decided to resurrect it as part of cast fest. This was our big festival |
| 0:34.1 | when we got loads of BBC News podcasts together, along with hundreds and |
| 0:38.4 | hundreds of podcast fans, to watch them being recorded at the BBC's historic Made Avale |
| 0:43.3 | Studios. And so what you'll hear now is an expanded version of that gimmick. Shout out to |
| 0:49.8 | my Brex, as recorded in front of an audience at Castfest on the 25th of April. |
| 0:56.6 | Newscast. |
| 0:57.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:58.9 | Humanity's next great voyage begins. |
| 1:01.3 | We are in the midst of a rupture. |
| 1:03.3 | Nostalgia will not bring back the old order. |
| 1:06.0 | Six, seven. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | It's supposed to be me as a doctor. |
| 1:09.8 | Daddy has also a special connotation. |
| 1:11.9 | Ooh-la-law. |
| 1:12.6 | Thinking about it like a pantor helped. |
| 1:15.4 | Do we play music now? |
| 1:16.4 | What do we think? |
| 1:17.2 | Hello, it's Adam, not in the newscast studio, |
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