Summary
Two stories, one issue. Sima Kotecha speaks to one of the co-authors of a government-commissioned report which says the UK "no longer" has a system rigged against minorities. And we also hear what's happened in the first few days of the George Floyd trial, with the BBC's Lebo Diseko.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, mom. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi, Sima. |
| 0:06.8 | You okay? |
| 0:07.8 | I'm fine, thank you. |
| 0:09.8 | How about you? |
| 0:10.8 | Yeah, all good. Listen, mom, I'm presenting newscast for the first time today. You know the program that you love with Adam Fleming? |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, he's her such a nice boy. I like him. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, okay, well, let's not like him too much because I'm doing his job today. |
| 0:24.6 | So I need you to assess my performance and tell me how I do. Is that all right? |
| 0:31.8 | Yes, yes, definitely I'll do that is that all right? Yes, yes definitely I will do that because you are my worst critic |
| 0:35.8 | aren't you? There is always room for getting better. Okay. I think you always look beautiful and presentable and you always try your best and I always get happy and impressed. |
| 0:50.0 | All right, well you're going to do that and I'm terrified of your assessment because you are brutal and very honest but hey ho if your mom can't be honest who can so on the podcast we've got some great stuff today. We've got a conversation about |
| 1:04.4 | race in the light of the report that's been published. We've also got some information |
| 1:09.3 | on the trial that's taking place in America. So don't go anywhere. Please stay tuned mom |
| 1:15.2 | listen and then let me know how I've done at the end. Is that okay? |
| 1:18.3 | Okay then darling, okay. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:23.0 | What is this virus? |
| 1:24.0 | How does it spread? |
| 1:26.0 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:28.0 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:31.0 | There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
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