Summary
The texts between the prime minister and businessman, Sir James Dyson, have caused a political row. Laura is here to explain why. And now Coronavirus Newscast is nominated for an award, DJ and BAFTA awards ceremony host, Edith Bowman, gives Adam some advice for attending a virtual ceremony.
Today’s Newscast was made by Emma Close with Georgia Coan, Alix Pickles and Ben Cooper. The Studio Manager was Emma Crowe. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I've got some quite big news about this podcast that we can all share in the joy of, but because I'm so modest I'm going to leave it to my agent |
| 0:16.7 | Vanessa Phelps to announce. |
| 0:18.7 | Lovely listener good morning to you welcome you are entranced and beguiled by BBC Radio London's breakfast show |
| 0:25.4 | I'm Vanessa Felt and we're thrilled to bits to have you aboard this morning an |
| 0:29.2 | awful lot to get through but they're waving this in front of my eyes for Vanessa exciting and |
| 0:34.9 | confidential so what can it possibly be let me just apply the royal glasses and |
| 0:40.4 | investigate gosh it's from the Arias, the Radio Academy, the 2020 Special Award. |
| 0:47.5 | It's for innovative and creative content that supported audiences during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. |
| 0:54.0 | And the nominees are Absolute Radio 40s, TBI Media for absolute radio, |
| 1:00.0 | coronavirus newscast, BBC News for BBC Sounds, Radio Wano, H.M. Wandsworth, Life on |
| 1:08.2 | Lockdown, White Stiletto Productions for BBC Radio 4. Magic with the musicals. |
| 1:14.4 | TVI Media for Magic Radio and Rethink BBC Radio |
| 1:20.1 | Congratulations to all nominees, lots of love. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh, thanks, lots of love to you too, Vanessa. |
| 1:26.0 | So yes, we've been nominated in the special category for the Aria Awards, |
| 1:31.0 | and as Vanessa was saying, it's for coverage that supported people through the pandemic |
| 1:36.8 | but the truth is you were the ones supporting me through the pandemic because being able to chat to you and hear from you |
| 1:44.8 | every day was a massive help for me and I'll always be very very grateful for that |
| 1:48.9 | whether we win an award or not. Right, on with this potentially nominated in the Arias next year |
| 1:56.1 | episode of Newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 2:05.0 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
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