Summary
Lord Mandelson of Newscast titles fame gives his reaction to being in the credits and gives us a personal rendition. He defends Keir Starmer as a principled politician who just needs better support. And Amol Rajan talks about the Princess Diana controversy at the BBC.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Cristina Criddle and Joel Massey. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | The talk of the time this week in podcasting world |
| 0:06.7 | has been our new opening clips. |
| 0:09.5 | Has it? |
| 0:10.4 | Yeah, oh yeah. |
| 0:11.4 | I've had quite a lot of some might say grief about them, |
| 0:13.9 | but also a lot of praise for them. |
| 0:16.3 | But tonight I'm pleased to say we've |
| 0:17.5 | got one of the stars of our opening titles. |
| 0:20.4 | It's not Gretchenberg. |
| 0:21.6 | It's not Boris Johnson. |
| 0:22.9 | It's not Mrs. Vancouver from the World Health Organization. |
| 0:26.0 | Is it your fashion advisor? |
| 0:29.1 | Let's not get into that. |
| 0:29.9 | It's Lord Mendelssohn. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello. |
| 0:32.2 | Hello. |
| 0:33.1 | Have you heard our opening titles? |
| 0:34.8 | I haven't thought you had. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, OK. |
| 0:37.6 | And this could go one of two ways, isn't it? |
| 0:40.1 | I beg your mind, you've already described this podcast |
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