Migrant tragedy in the Channel
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
More than 30 people have drowned after their boat sank on the way to the UK… Emily Maitlis (who was en route to Dover as the story was unfolding) takes us through the details. After his exclusive interview with the President of Belarus went viral, the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg and his producer Will Vernon tell all about what it was like meeting “Europe’s last dictator”.
And Laura joins Adam from a windy walk in Edinburgh to chat through her interview with Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Rosamund Jones, Ben Cooper, Georgia Coan and Rachel Judah. Hannah Montgomery is the studio director.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | Hello! |
| 0:05.5 | I swear this day comes around sooner every year, but it's when the Collins English Dictionary |
| 0:09.4 | announced their words of the year and announced which ones are going into the new version |
| 0:13.4 | of the dictionary. |
| 0:14.4 | And one of them, I can't believe I'm about to say this, was christened by Chris Mason. |
| 0:21.0 | He is the father of the word, pandemic. |
| 0:25.4 | And here is when it was born on any questions, a very good program on Radio 4 on the 9th of July. |
| 0:31.6 | What do you say to critics around this particular issue of what I'm calling the, the pandemic |
| 0:36.6 | that the app that so many of us have that we're scanning into places? |
| 0:41.0 | Chris, congratulations for earning your place in lexical historical history, also known as |
| 0:46.6 | the dictionary. |
| 0:47.6 | On with this episode of newscast. |
| 0:49.6 | Newscast. |
| 0:50.6 | From the baby say that we'll take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:56.2 | Now if that is the argument then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 1:00.5 | Combined with contract tasting, contact tasting, tortesting, tracing food. |
| 1:06.2 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm vegan so of course I don't like meatball. |
| 1:10.9 | Next slide please. |
| 1:11.8 | Blair Blair Blair. |
| 1:13.6 | Loose, loose, loose. |
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