Summary
Government promises schools in England more money to make up for lost learning, but the school catch-up tsar, Sir Kevan Collins, quits anyway. What's going on? The BBC's Branwen Jeffreys tells all. And, after our chat with Seb Coe yesterday, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Japan on how people are really feeling about the Olympic Games in 50 days time.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. The Studio Director is Michael Regaard. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor. Dino Sofos is the Editor
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, we're going to start today's episode with the TV review. |
| 0:08.2 | No, not that Kate Winslet thing that everyone's going on about, |
| 0:11.0 | mainly because I've not seen it all yet, so don't want any spoilers, but |
| 0:14.9 | Piers Morgan's big, quite emotional interview with Kieer Starmer, which was on I TV on Tuesday night |
| 0:21.6 | and is available on the I TV hub and we thought we would get on a reviewer who has done something very similar in other words |
| 0:28.4 | interviewed Kieer Starmer in front of a live audience and knows a little bit about the behind the scenes of these things |
| 0:34.3 | because they've worked in politics too. And that person is podcaster and comedian Matt Ford. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello! |
| 0:40.3 | Ta-da! |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome back! |
| 0:42.3 | It's great to be back! |
| 0:44.0 | Are you backstage at a gig right now by the way? |
| 0:46.0 | I am. I'm backstage at the Vaudeville theatre. |
| 0:48.0 | Tonight I'm interviewing Jess Phillips and Esther McVeigh, |
| 0:51.0 | and last week I interviewed Kiea Starmer amongst others. |
| 0:54.8 | You're perfectly qualified then. What were your big thoughts then? |
| 0:57.3 | Give us your kind of capsule review of Pierce Morgan's life stories? |
| 1:00.9 | I thought it was really good and actually it makes you realize we've seen so little of Kiestama. |
| 1:05.2 | That was my main impression was just as a view. |
| 1:07.2 | You think, God actually I barely heard him speak and I've barely heard him speak about anything other than COVID. |
| 1:13.0 | So I think actually this, whenever there's a new politician on the scene, |
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