Newscast! The Musical
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
One of our listeners has sent in a tribute to Chris Mason, Newscast star.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke joins Adam, Chris and Alex Forsyth to talk about the government’s decision to give every household a £400 discount on their energy bills. It’ll be partly funded by a windfall tax on oil and gas firms’ profits. Conservative MP Mark Harper, who’s calling for Boris Johnson to resign, explains why he believes it’s time for the party to choose its next leader.
This episode of Newscast was made by Chris Flynn, Daniel Wittenberg and Miranda Slade. The assistant editor was Alison Gee. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Alex and Chris, on an episode of newscast on BBC Sounds the other day, we were talking |
| 0:09.3 | about there's a new rock opera about Tony Blair and I said, oh I'd love it if there was |
| 0:12.9 | a newscast musical, big musical fan, and I said, but please don't put too much effort into |
| 0:18.8 | it, don't like to do a demo of a whole newscast musical. |
| 0:21.6 | Jeff from Indianapolis has actually done a demo of a newscast musical, so that's the |
| 0:26.3 | first amazing thing. |
| 0:27.5 | The second amazing thing is he's taken lots of newscast characters and written songs |
| 0:32.4 | about them based on actual musicals. |
| 0:35.4 | So there is one about Chris Mason based on Jesus Christ's superstar, so here is Jeff |
| 0:41.5 | serenading you Chris in the style of Andrew Lloyd Webber. |
| 0:44.6 | Chris Mason newscast star, do you think you're what they say you are? |
| 1:11.0 | That's brilliant, but on Jeff, there's a work of musical genius, that is, I'm blushing, |
| 1:20.1 | Jeff, I'm blushing, but that is blooming marvellous, thank you. |
| 1:24.4 | And Jeff also did one for Catcher, which is called the Jellicle Catcher, which is the |
| 1:29.6 | only way you can make me like Katz. |
| 1:33.8 | Did he do all for you? |
| 1:35.6 | No, that's fine, because I think I'd be like the son of the narrator character. |
| 1:39.6 | I think you're about maddened butterfly. |
| 1:41.6 | Oh, very classic. |
| 1:42.6 | That's very high brown. |
| 1:43.6 | It is quite high brown. |
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