Local Elections: As It Happened
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Podlitical reveals a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to cover an election. Lucy Whyte interviews the regular Podlitical team and other BBC colleagues to get a picture of the internal workings of a news organisation as results from the local council elections in Scotland and across the UK pour in. As the SNP again finish as the biggest party in the Scottish council elections, and with Labour finishing second after the Conservatives suffered big losses, what does it mean for the political landscape in Scotland going forward?
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| 0:00.0 | I know I say this in every election, but the story of an election is told at the counts. |
| 0:05.7 | And we need to hear, see. |
| 0:07.6 | We are telling the story from now online. |
| 0:09.8 | The live page is up and running. |
| 0:12.3 | So particularly, Glenn, you just amplify a couple of the points that Daniel was making. |
| 0:19.3 | Aberdeen, who's on? |
| 0:20.6 | Is it Rachel today? |
| 0:22.3 | Anticipation building until we start to get some results this afternoon. |
| 0:25.9 | And the live page will run all day. |
| 0:27.1 | Thank you, Jane. Any more for any more? |
| 0:29.5 | So it's 8.30 in the morning and it's election results day. |
| 0:33.9 | You've just heard a little bit of our morning news meeting happening on Zoom. And we've |
| 0:39.9 | decided we're going to do a slightly different podlitical this week. We love a bit of behind |
| 0:44.9 | the scenes. So we thought we'd use this episode to give you a flavour of what it's like on |
| 0:50.1 | days like this. |
| 0:57.4 | Right, Phil, hello. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello. |
| 0:59.1 | I've just come into the building. |
| 1:00.7 | It's seven minutes past 12. |
| 1:03.4 | We've been here a lot longer than I have. |
| 1:04.7 | Well, not that much longer, but yes. |
| 1:05.3 | What's going on? |
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