MPs’ booster jobs
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
There's been a heated row in parliament today about MP's taking on second jobs... Adam and Laura chat it through.
The BBC's Sima Kotecha and her mum, Hansa, are back! We discuss the huge public reaction to former Yorkshire cricketer, Azeem Rafiq’s, emotional testimony on Tuesday.
And the cost of living has surged at its fastest pace in almost 10 years. Another friend of the pod, Bloomberg’s Lizzy Burden, explains how it’s affecting everything from crisps to second-hand cars.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Georgia Coan and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Cassie Galpin. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, I went to the cinema for the first time in ages of the day. |
| 0:08.2 | And in the trailers, there was a trailer for the new Ghostbusters film where it's like |
| 0:13.4 | the next generation. |
| 0:15.1 | Somehow the town that is in anywhere near a tectonic plate that has no fault lines, |
| 0:19.5 | no fracking, no loud music even, is shaking on a daily basis. |
| 0:24.2 | Under the dining table now. |
| 0:30.3 | Hey, remember that one summer we died under a table? |
| 0:33.5 | And then it gets even better because we discovered there's some copyright-free Ghostbusters-esque |
| 0:39.0 | music you can get that you can play on podcasts. |
| 0:41.9 | Oh, that is so bad. |
| 0:50.1 | Anyway, I've got very happy memories of Ghostbusters and I suspect you do too because it's just |
| 0:55.5 | one of those films, isn't it? |
| 0:57.4 | And I know this is basically like an advert for the film, but I think it's justified for |
| 1:02.3 | you to send in your Ghostbusters memories and we'll read out some of the best ones. |
| 1:06.9 | Who are you going to email? |
| 1:08.9 | newscasts at BBC.co.uk. |
| 1:09.9 | And that's it for the trailers. |
| 1:13.9 | Now I want to the main feature. |
| 1:15.9 | Newscasts from the BBC that will take some time before we figure out what our new normal |
| 1:22.1 | is. |
| 1:23.1 | Now if that is the argument then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
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