Live at Edinburgh Fringe: Israel’s Gaza City Plan, JD Vance's Fishing Trip & Kemi's Cheating Confession
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today, Newscast was recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe in front of a live audience.
Adam is joined by James Cook, Scotland Editor, Des Clarke, Host of Breaking The News, and Ailbhe Rea, Associate Editor at Bloomberg UK, to discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to take control of Gaza, plus how Keir Starmer has responded. Plus, they chat about JD Vance arriving in the UK for his summer vacation and Kemi Badenoch confessing to Amol Rajan that she exposed a classmate for cheating on an exam.
And the cast of Showstoppers! the improvised musical improvise a musical treat for Newscasters.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello from backstage at the National Museum of Scotland. |
| 0:07.4 | This has been my home for the last five days. |
| 0:11.2 | And shall I take you on a little tour? |
| 0:13.0 | So over there, we've got the chairs that belong to Matt Ford, the comedian, who's been doing |
| 0:17.6 | his chat show here. |
| 0:19.3 | Just across the room is a load of kind of Van Gogh-themed stuff. |
| 0:23.0 | That's because it's also home to a musical about the painter called Vagabond Skies. |
| 0:28.4 | There's a few other bits and bobs around here. |
| 0:30.8 | Oh yeah, the political bookshop, they've based themselves here too. |
| 0:35.0 | Lacking some well-known podcasting authors, but never mind. And the best thing happened |
| 0:40.2 | earlier on today, I arrived, and there was somebody asleep on the floor on a newscast cushion, |
| 0:46.6 | and it turns out it was the comedian Jenny Eclare, who was the show before us. Anyway, I'm wide |
| 0:52.6 | awake just for this last episode of newscast coming to you from the Edinburgh |
| 0:57.5 | fringe. And the reason I'm a bit out of breath is because I literally just ran up the stairs around the |
| 1:01.6 | back of the auditorium to get ready for the show. |
| 1:07.8 | Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 1:13.2 | Did I say that? |
| 1:14.2 | I can't believe I say that. |
| 1:15.5 | Next question. |
| 1:16.6 | This is all for the benefit of Earth. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan. |
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