Summary
The UK rejoins the EU's flagship scientific research scheme
What does it mean to the country?
The UK’s top scientific advisor Dame Angela McLean is on, as well as Katya Adler, who tells us whether this could be a thaw in UK/EU relations.
And what does the case of the escaped Wandsworth prisoner tell us about the state of prisons? Former BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw and former Head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office Chris Phillips gives Adam the lowdown.
Today's Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Stephanie Mitcalf, Rufus Gray and Josh Jenkins. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, when I check the newscast Discord channel server, |
| 0:08.7 | which is regularly, I think the thing that comes up most often |
| 0:11.2 | is when's Catcher Adler coming back? |
| 0:13.0 | Well, the answer is right now. |
| 0:14.3 | Hi, Catcher. |
| 0:15.1 | Hello, how nice. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, Discord people. |
| 0:18.5 | Well, and isn't it nice of the UK and the EU |
| 0:21.2 | to agree finally that the UK can join the Horizon Science |
| 0:24.9 | funding programs that we haven't excused to catch up again? |
| 0:28.0 | Nice. Well, we could discuss the word nice, couldn't we? |
| 0:31.1 | And everything that's led up to this final agreement now. |
| 0:34.8 | And we will talk about that in the bulk of the podcast. |
| 0:36.8 | But I just wanted to catch up with you with a few things, catcher. |
| 0:40.5 | I was reading in the Guardian newspaper an interview you were doing |
| 0:43.6 | from your holidays. |
| 0:45.1 | Yes. |
| 0:47.0 | Were you at the beach? |
| 0:48.4 | I took a break from making a complete idiot of myself |
| 0:51.8 | learning how to win, sir, which I did in order to encourage |
| 0:56.8 | my elders to who are teenagers and who are too cool to do anything. |
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