Remembering Sir David
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Queen agrees to make Southend a city in honour of the Conservative MP, Sir David Amess, who was stabbed to death in his constituency in Essex on Friday. Naga (today's special guest host) talks it through with Laura, as well as the BBC's Frank Gardner.
And, on the day that former US secretary of state, Colin Powell, dies, we hear from Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to the United States, who worked with him.
Today’s Newscast was made by Caitlin Hanrahan with producers Ben Cooper and Georgia Coan. The studio director was Cassie Galpin and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So, here on the team we saw this tweet from a gentleman called Simon Beale, |
| 0:10.0 | who is the head of history and politics at Vina's school in Ikenum. |
| 0:13.7 | Now the tweet said that he created a newscast quiz for his students and he used stories that were covered |
| 0:20.9 | on newscast last week. So what else are we going to do? True newscast style, |
| 0:26.6 | we're going to do the quiz. And Adam has managed to duck out of the quiz, obviously, and left |
| 0:32.2 | it to me to deal with and see if I can pass and to help me with |
| 0:37.2 | this we've got Simon the history teacher with this. Hello Simon. |
| 0:40.5 | Hello nigger how you doing? I'm a little bit nervous if I'm being |
| 0:43.4 | completely honest because I should know the answers as is always the case and very |
| 0:47.4 | rarely do I. We'll get to the quiz in a moment. Tell me though how does this work? |
| 0:51.8 | This is one great way of boosting |
| 0:54.6 | our numbers here for newscast yeah absolutely so I'm a bit I've been a big fan of |
| 0:58.7 | newscast for a long time when it was Brexit cast and then all the other |
| 1:01.7 | iterations of it and I just think it's a really |
| 1:03.7 | great way for students to access some really complex news stories in a fun |
| 1:08.6 | accessible way. The more I listened to it the more I found it allied with |
| 1:12.1 | elements of the course because what students that study |
| 1:14.5 | A level really need to know is the theory but really current examples that that |
| 1:18.9 | theory can be applied to and newscast I find really does that job really well. |
| 1:23.0 | So they're going to be judging your performance on newscast. |
| 1:26.6 | Bit nervous about that? |
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