Promotion, Demotion, Commotion
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In… out… shake it all about! On a busy day in Westminster, Laura and Adam discuss the latest moves around the cabinet table as Boris Johnson reshuffles the pack following a feisty PMQs. With inflation rising at the sharpest rate since records began in 1997, Business correspondent Katie Prescott explains what’s going on in the UK economy. And as Shamima Begum makes a renewed appeal to return to the UK, producer of the critically-acclaimed podcast “I’m Not A Monster”, Josh Baker, reveals what happened when he interviewed the former ISIS teen bride at a refugee camp last month for his new podcast series. Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Ben Cooper and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Emma Crowe. Jonathan Aspinwall is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, please meet the country's new Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, |
| 0:12.3 | who already knows her way around the world quite well? |
| 0:15.0 | We are growing wheat more competitively than the Canadian prairies. |
| 0:20.0 | We're producing more varieties of cheese than the French. |
| 0:25.4 | And we are selling tea to China. |
| 0:31.4 | Yorkshire tea. |
| 0:35.0 | In December, I'll be in Beijing, opening up new pork markets. |
| 0:46.0 | That was her conference speech a few years ago, |
| 0:48.0 | which has gone down in history. |
| 0:50.0 | And actually, the new foreign secretary is already a friend of this podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, I don't mind. I just have this recollection of you and me being in a food show in Belgium. |
| 0:59.0 | Is that right? Was it in France? |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. But you were chasing me round with a plate of cheese. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes, that's right. There has been a reshuffle after weeks and weeks of speculation. |
| 1:10.0 | Actually months I think we could probably talkter up to. Boris Johnson has sacked some people from the cabinet and is in the process of hiring some new people and will tell you who's up and who's down and who's out and who's in on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:23.2 | Newscast. |
| 1:24.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:25.8 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:30.0 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented television. |
| 1:34.3 | Combined with contact tasting tracing for you. |
| 1:40.0 | Yes, yes, yes. |
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