Summary
Met Police chief under pressure to quit.
As Sarah Everard’s murderer is given a whole life sentence, the Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick is under pressure to resign. The chair of the Home Affairs select committee Yvette Cooper joins Laura, Adam and Chris to discuss what needs to be done to protect women and girls.
Plus former M16 chief Sir Alex Younger talks about the current threats to British security, and how he was scouted to become a spy. And he gives the thumbs up to the latest Bond movie.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj, with Caitlin Hanrahan, Alix Pickles, Georgia Coan and Danny Wittenberg. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | What a way to celebrate International Podcasting Day, |
| 0:08.4 | because it is. |
| 0:09.1 | Is it? |
| 0:09.6 | Yeah, I know you might not have known that, |
| 0:10.8 | but apparently I didn't know it until about two minutes ago either but |
| 0:13.9 | much as I love the medium just to be clear. Every day is international |
| 0:16.9 | podcasting day for you one. Exactly Monday to Friday but we're celebrating |
| 0:20.9 | it in style in that you've moved up to this studio? I have done the equivalent so I'm in the main new cast |
| 0:26.3 | Studio next to Adam doing the podcasting equivalent on such an auspicious day |
| 0:32.0 | I've turning left really got an airplane whichicious day. I've turned left when you got an airplane, which by the |
| 0:34.6 | way I've never done, but I feel like I have done today by sitting in this big chair. |
| 0:40.1 | And Laura is celebrating at home, but in a big way by having some newscast branding |
| 0:44.6 | installed in her house. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh yeah, I have one of these in every room, don't you? |
| 0:50.9 | And then actually I also have a Teleclock News room and there's a Today Program room and a World |
| 0:57.0 | at One Radio 4 room and a news online room. |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah, everywhere in my house is |
| 1:02.6 | I want to know if it's a digital artifacty thing |
| 1:06.3 | that we're just seeing because we're looking at you on the telly |
| 1:08.8 | or it's a bit of cardboard. |
| 1:11.9 | It's a bit of cardboard. It's a riser. It's a riser. That's the technical term. It's a riser. Beloved by outside broadcast teams everywhere. You know when you rise to,, you put it up the program name with our colleagues at News |
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