Nice Of EU To Visit

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today, we discuss whether the EU and UK are about to do a deal on a youth visa scheme.

Labour has previously said it has "no plans" for such a scheme, which would make it easier for young people to study and work abroad. But today, the government is no longer ruling it out ahead of a bit summit next month. Adam and Chris discuss the possible “reset”

And, tensions are rising between India and Pakistan following an attack that killed 26 people in Kashmir. Adam speaks to Shruti Menon, Senior Journalist at BBC Verify and Anbarasan Ethirajan, BBC South Asia Region Editor for BBC News.

You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://discord.gg/m3YPUGv9

New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bit.ly/3ENLcS1 Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Shiler Mahmoudi. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	Chris, hello.
0:05.8	Hi.
0:06.3	What did you think of our innovation of old newscast?
0:09.3	I thought it was terrific.
0:10.6	Oh, good.
0:11.0	I did.
0:12.2	And I loved...
0:12.9	Leave a review.
0:13.8	Yeah, no, I loved hearing from newscasters who had enjoyed it and the ideas that were being
0:19.5	thrown around for potential future topics. But part of
0:23.5	me felt, you know, when people were talking about the winter discontent or, you know, various
0:28.3	things in, which might loosely fall into contemporary history, that maybe we need, you know,
0:33.8	I don't know, Battle of Hastings. Oh, a well-known history podcast has just done a big series on that.
0:40.1	I think many millions more people have downloaded that than we download our version.
0:45.3	But I'm just wondering, because I think that it's interesting to go for like the big
0:51.1	moments, like the big hinge points in history, like the global financial
0:55.3	crisis, like the Good Friday Agreement. But I wonder if those things that you and I have lived
0:59.9	through that maybe wouldn't merit like a history book by themselves, but ended up being really
1:05.5	important. Oh, I thought you were going to say that would be not being important.
1:08.8	I mean, there's plenty of them. Like the AV referendum.
1:13.1	Yeah, but that was interesting.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 4 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.