Salman Rushdie Attacked
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The novelist is stabbed in New York state. The BBC's Katie Razzall, gives Adam the latest on the incident and the background to the author.
On the day a drought is declared across parts of England, Gardener’s World and Gardener’s Question Time go head-to-head to give you the best tips for looking after your outside spaces.
And seven UK cities are short-listed as potential hosts for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. We chat with Guy Freeman, who produced the last British-based contest in 1998.
Today’s episode was made by Beth Rose, Cordelia Hemming and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, so many sightings of the newscast artwork |
| 0:08.8 | out in the wild after a Christian Radio won with this accidental newscast jumper and |
| 0:15.3 | the lovely birthday card that Louis sent her mum. |
| 0:18.3 | We've had an email from Caroline. |
| 0:20.4 | During the first lockdown way back in 2020, my husband and I accidentally painted a wall |
| 0:24.4 | in our house to match the newscast logo. |
| 0:26.9 | As so realistic, I managed to convince a work colleague on a video call. |
| 0:30.1 | I lived with Adam Fleming and it was in fact a real newscast banner. |
| 0:33.8 | It makes a great backdrop for photos. |
| 0:35.5 | I did all my bump photos in front of it when I was pregnant in the beginning of the year. |
| 0:39.2 | We really didn't do it on purpose. |
| 0:40.7 | We just love orange and teal and then Caroline attached a photo and yeah, it really very |
| 0:47.2 | convincingly and accidentally looks like the newscast artwork, although with the addition |
| 0:51.8 | of a grey triangle in there as well. |
| 0:55.0 | And then Kelly WhatsApp to us saying, I love this one. |
| 0:58.9 | I inadvertently repaint in my canal boat in the newscast colors and she attached a photo |
| 1:04.4 | of her beautiful boat which is even more beautiful because it's got an orange roof, a white stripe |
| 1:10.9 | and a teal rest of it and it's sitting there in a beautiful canal and I've just moved |
| 1:16.1 | to the canal. |
| 1:17.1 | So I love seeing that. |
| 1:19.3 | Thank you very much, Kelly. |
| 1:20.9 | Thank you very much, Caroline. |
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