Summary
Taking the next train out of Ukraine... We speak to the BBC’s Fergal Keane in Lviv, where he’s been speaking to Ukrainians fleeing to Poland.
Writer and podcaster, Jon Ronson, joins Adam and the BBC’s Marianna Spring to talk about culture wars and misinformation in Ukraine And broadcasting (and election-graphics) legend, Jeremy Vine, gives us his verdict on South Korea’s presidential election coverage (which includes a faceless bear and presidential candidates enjoying a seaside sunset)! Today’s Newscast was made by Alix Pickles. The studio manager was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, there's been a presidential |
| 0:06.7 | election in South Korea. |
| 0:08.8 | Yoon Suk-Yul, the conservative, won, beating Lee Jae-Myeong from the |
| 0:14.9 | previously incumbent Democratic Party. |
| 0:17.6 | But the reason everyone's been talking about it on social media is not the result. |
| 0:20.9 | It is the quite frankly extraordinary election night graphics from SBS to South Korean |
| 0:27.2 | Broadcaster. And who better to analyse this broadcasting development than Jeremy Vine, |
| 0:32.7 | Jeremy! I'm so thrilled that you've got me on to talk about graphics in between British |
| 0:37.7 | elections. |
| 0:38.7 | Well, we've got to do something while we're waiting. |
| 0:41.6 | So, well, you've seen the Twitter thread that went viral this week, which brought all |
| 0:45.5 | of this to our attention. And I thought we could get you to just explain what is going |
| 0:50.2 | on in some of the most amazing clips. So let's start with the first one, which features |
| 0:55.4 | a very big bear. |
| 0:57.4 | The first thing that happens in this is that you, that you present a sitting quite invisibly |
| 1:05.0 | just at the lower right hand corner. And these doors open and a massive, has a very |
| 1:10.1 | odd, very sinister creature. It reminds me a little bit of a benign version of the clown |
| 1:14.6 | in Stephen King's It, but it's a huge bear. And it then picks up the candidates. And |
| 1:20.2 | the bear is five times human size. And then it seems to run off with them. |
| 1:31.9 | And then we sort of get into these bizarre scenarios with the two leading candidates. And |
| 1:36.5 | there's a sort of Winter Olympics snow sporty one. |
| 1:43.9 | What's amazing here is that the two main candidates in the presidential election are portrayed |
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