Minister of Opportunities Knocks
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Jacob Rees-Mogg gets a new role in government... Chris sits in for Adam and chats through the latest cabinet reshuffle with the BBC's Alex Forsyth. On the day that the Health Secretary announces plans to reduce NHS waiting lists, Natasha Loder (who's making a Radio 4 doc all about the NHS backlog) puts the problem into perspective. And diplomacy continues in Russia and Ukraine... We chat to Carrie Davies in Moscow and Fergal Keane in Kiev. Today’s Newscast was made by John Murphy with Alix Pickles and Georgia Coan. The studio director was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Oh! |
| 0:05.6 | Oh, that was close. |
| 0:09.9 | Well, there we go. |
| 0:14.4 | Just about made it with a little detour. |
| 0:17.6 | That is just my favourite moment of the day. |
| 0:19.6 | What we're doing at quarter to eight this morning, because that is what John Watson sports |
| 0:24.0 | presenter on BBC Breakfast was doing with that wonderful sound effect of John Ewan |
| 0:29.0 | of set of skis live on the tally. |
| 0:31.2 | I mean, blind me tally to go enough jeopardy in it as it is. |
| 0:33.6 | And someone said to you, you know what, John, I've got a great idea. |
| 0:36.6 | Do you want to do some skiing live on the tally? |
| 0:38.6 | I thought it was a good idea. |
| 0:40.0 | I said Chris, all the sports you probably get me to do, I'd say skiing would be the one |
| 0:44.5 | I'd feel probably the most comfortable about. |
| 0:46.6 | Right. |
| 0:47.6 | I've got to say after my performance this morning, that's not so long. |
| 0:50.6 | Well, that's right. |
| 0:51.6 | I was watching this morning. |
| 0:52.6 | I was sitting with Macuapati inside at Westminster, infinitely less jeopardy. |
| 0:57.8 | And there was you at the top of the slope in Aberdeen doing your reports connected to the |
| 1:01.9 | wind chill in peaks for BBC Breakfast. |
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