Summary
The Edinburgh Fringe kicks off this week! Adam is checking out the vibe at the Festival with comedians John Robins and Rosie Holt.
Oceans reached their hottest ever recorded temperatures this week. BBC’s former climate analyst Roger Harrabin and Blue Planet cameraman Doug Allan join Adam to discuss the findings and share what they’ve seen when working around the world’s oceans.
And… What do you call your TV remote? This week’s debate between Newscasters rumbles on.
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Today's Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming. It was made by Fiona Leach with Miranda Slade and Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Rohan Madison. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, the debate about what you called or, in fact, still called your TV remote control |
| 0:11.1 | has really caught fire on the newscast discord server. |
| 0:14.7 | Some of you are with me, including Sean Jay, who says yes to a hoofa-duffer. |
| 0:19.0 | I thought it was just in my household, although quite a few people have pointed out that |
| 0:22.4 | the father of the hoofa-duffer, as a phrase, was actually no ledmonds on teleaddicts. |
| 0:26.9 | We're into our fifth year, and we've got our brand new round for all those people |
| 0:30.4 | who like to play with their hoofa-duffers. |
| 0:32.4 | We call it channel hopping. |
| 0:33.7 | Marceny chipped in to say that we called it the dit-dit, and Ian chipped in with this voice |
| 0:38.6 | note. |
| 0:39.6 | Hi, Lee's cast. |
| 0:40.6 | In my house, we called the remote the zapper, because it's that, the TV. |
| 0:44.9 | Mrs. Active says in her house it's who's got the buttons, and she then says spoiler alert, |
| 0:49.6 | never me. |
| 0:50.6 | And then indomitable goal sent a little mini essay, saying we used to have a telly with |
| 0:55.7 | heat sensitive buttons on top of the set. |
| 0:58.8 | You could tap one to change channel, but that was no challenge. |
| 1:01.6 | The real skill was being able to blow on the buttons and get the right channel. |
| 1:06.2 | BBC One was easiest, because there was no button to the left of it that might catch a |
| 1:09.8 | stray, or breath. |
| 1:11.3 | Can't tell if that TV is from the pastor, from technology that's yet to be invented, |
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