Summary
The history of England and Denmark.
Tonight’s Euro 2020 semi-final is just the latest chapter in a long shared history between England and Denmark. The Rest Is History Podcast team take Adam back in time to explain the biggest moments these two nations have shared (and what these moments tell us about tonight’s match). Also, the BBC’s Deputy Political Editor, Vicky Young, jumps in the studio to pick through today’s PMQs and the fallout from the planned easing of COVID restrictions.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Alix Pickles and Ben Cooper. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, well done, Charles and Camilla, forgetting the cold stream guards to play this outside |
| 0:11.3 | their house on the eve of the Big Match. |
| 0:15.8 | Everyone is getting ready for it, including the Danish goalkeeper, Casper Schmeichel, |
| 0:29.4 | who was indulging in a bit of sledging. |
| 0:31.4 | You'll be in particular of the phrase, it's coming home, now, what would it mean to you guys |
| 0:36.4 | to stop it coming home? |
| 0:38.1 | Has it ever been home? |
| 0:39.1 | I don't know, have you ever won it? |
| 0:42.0 | It's 66, it was home. |
| 0:44.1 | Well, was that not the World Cup? |
| 0:47.4 | Meanwhile in the Jeremy Vine studio, they re-upped an old clip of Ed Miliband doing some |
| 0:52.8 | town cry ring to cheer us on? |
| 1:07.2 | And we rated the newscast archive and found our interview with David Bediel, one half of |
| 1:13.7 | Skinner and Bediel from Three Lions fame, and it was at a point where he was feeling really |
| 1:18.8 | quite bleak. |
| 1:20.4 | But this tournament was a kind of point of light and optimism, just on the horizon. |
| 1:25.7 | I do agree with the people who say sport and the arts and all those kind of things, you |
| 1:30.7 | know, they raise the morale of the country, certainly raise mind morale. |
| 1:34.2 | I'm quite depressed by the on-way of every day being essentially indoors all day and |
| 1:40.7 | all the rest of it, and the euros would certainly be a good thing. |
| 1:45.2 | And of course, there are loads and loads and loads of VVV enthusiastic fans. |
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