One Year of Labour: What Happened? (Newscast Live)
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
One year after Keir Starmer became the first Labour Prime Minister for 14 years, have his first 12 months been a success?
Adam, Chris and Henry are at Crossed Wires festival to discuss in front of an audience of Newscasters!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's Adam here in the old Coles Brothers department store in Sheffield. |
| 0:10.0 | It shut down a few years ago and people were quite annoyed about that here. |
| 0:14.0 | But it has been reborn this weekend as one of the venues for the Crossed Wires Podcasting festival. It's the second year this podcast festival |
| 0:23.3 | has been running, but this is the first year it's been sponsored by BBC Sounds. We're kind of like |
| 0:28.3 | the sponsors of newscast. So we thought we would come here and we'd make an episode. And because it's |
| 0:34.2 | quite a big echoy room, we thought, oh, we should maybe fill it up with some newscasters. |
| 0:40.3 | So we have. Do you want to say hello? |
| 0:42.3 | Hello. |
| 0:43.3 | So I'm now going to look over at the guys to see if they're ready to play the famous newscast music. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm going to look to my right to see if Chris Mason and Henry Zephman making a rare |
| 0:54.9 | weekday appearance are ready. And then I think we should make an episode of Newscast. |
| 1:02.4 | Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to the fat controller. Did I say that? I can't |
| 1:09.6 | believe I said that. Next question. |
| 1:11.6 | This is R for the benefit of Earth. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fam. |
| 1:16.6 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 1:18.6 | I like landscapes. |
| 1:19.6 | Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:20.6 | Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:22.6 | Blimey. |
| 1:23.6 | Hello, it's Adam, not in the newscast studio, |
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