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Newscast

Location, Location, Frustration

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Why are house prices rising so fast? Adam talks gazumping with Molly in Bristol (who’s been trying to buy her dream house) and Tom the estate agent (who knows a thing or two about how to sell dream houses to people like Molly). The BBC’s Vicki Young takes us through what’s been going on between Scotland’s first minister and the mayor of Greater Manchester. And Hugh Pym explains why he’s been hearing from ex-students at a school where dozens of pupils died in the 70s and 80s.

Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Cristina Criddle and Alix Pickles. The Studio Manager was Russell Newlove. The Assistant Editor is Sam Bonham. The Editor is Dino Sofos.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.6

Hello, you know me. I love a bandwagon, especially when it's online, and I think the latest

0:09.5

bandwagon is the AMA, the Ask Me Anything session.

0:13.8

We've had government scientists doing it on COVID, on Reddit and Snapchat.

0:18.4

And today, Dominic Cummings, yes, him again, did one that proved to be very entertaining and insightful to how politics

0:25.1

works or doesn't work.

0:26.4

So I sent out an AMA, Ask Me Anything, tweet today and it didn't get very many responses, but it got enough for us to do one.

0:35.1

So Rich Lord said, I've been thinking about the emergency newscasts.

0:39.1

How hard is it to get some downtime when a big story can drop at literally any time.

0:44.0

Thanks for thinking of us, Rich.

0:45.6

What I would say is actually we're all news aficionados, so you're always tuning into

0:51.0

the news anyway, and if there's a big story

0:55.0

journalists just want to be part of it so doing an emergency newscast is

0:58.9

absolutely not a chore it's like an exciting task and also the great thing is that you like it when we do them

1:06.3

so you get lots of lovely feedback as well. So again it's not a chore. Liz Curran, oh hello Lays,

1:12.2

and I communicate every now and then. She says, with your other

1:16.1

role as chief political correspondent, how do you manage having two demanding jobs? You have very early

1:22.3

and sometimes very late recordings.

1:24.0

Sleep is very important to health and well-being. How do you look after yourself?

1:27.8

Thanks Liz. I have a break in the middle of the day where I have a healthy lunch and a little nap. And I have just revised my view

1:39.7

of what a healthy night sleep is, which actually makes you a happier person and I think actually in the old days I was getting too much sleep because I weirdly feel like I've got more energy now.

1:50.3

Don't know if that's the thing anyway Any doctors can get in touch. And Evie Violet said,

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