Live, Laugh, Local Elections
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Is John Curtice on TV? Yes! And so is Newscast.
The results of England’s local elections have started coming in, so Newscast have woken up early (or stayed up all night) to talk about what it all means in a special live episode, broadcast on BBC iPlayer.
Adam is joined in the studio by Laura Kuenssberg and Chris Mason fresh from reporting on the results overnight. Professor Sir John Curtice tells us how he’s crunching the numbers, Alex Forsyth calls in from Salford and Vicki Young dials in from her breakfast table.
Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I am just walking out of the newscast studio |
| 0:07.8 | at the BBC HQ, a new broadcasting house. |
| 0:10.6 | I think I'm going to treat myself to a plate of pancakes |
| 0:14.2 | because I've just done an hour-long live episode of newscast, |
| 0:18.4 | which was broadcast on iPlayer. |
| 0:20.7 | So there were cameras and everything, because you could see us. |
| 0:24.2 | And we were chewing over the results of the local elections |
| 0:28.4 | in England with an all-star cast of Chris Mason, |
| 0:32.4 | deputy political editor Vicki Young, |
| 0:34.4 | political correspondent and host of any questions, Alex Forsyth, |
| 0:38.0 | and a real, real, lovely treat. |
| 0:41.3 | I was reunited with Laura Kaye |
| 0:44.4 | because she'd been presenting the program all night, |
| 0:46.9 | looking at the results as they were coming in. |
| 0:48.9 | A big thing to remember, this was the picture |
| 0:52.5 | on Friday morning between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. |
| 0:57.0 | where we had maybe up to a quarter of the results, |
| 1:01.0 | so there's still quite a long way to go, |
| 1:03.0 | but you can really discern some big trends, |
| 1:06.3 | and there were some interesting stories emerging already. |
| 1:08.9 | And this is how it sounded on our long live TV episode of newscast. |
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