"Spreadsheet Phil"
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Let's play Budget Bingo with the Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond... Adam is back and chatting to the man they used to refer to as "Spreadsheet Phil" about what he would do if he was still Chancellor of the Exchequer.
We also hear from the BBC's Katie Prescott, who's in a market in Bristol talking to shop owners about how business is going. What are they hoping for in this week's spending review and budget bonanza?
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham, with Georgia Coan, Alix Pickles and Danny Wittenberg. The studio director was Emma Crowe. Alison Gee was the assistant editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm back and very glad to be so. |
| 0:07.6 | Thank you so much to Victoria and Naga and Chris and Laura for keeping the various seats that I sit in very warm. |
| 0:16.0 | I had a lovely break, but yeah, it's nice to be back with you. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm going to dive straight back into the news though because it's a busy old week because on |
| 0:22.8 | Wednesday Ritchie Sunach the Chancellor will be delivering a budget and a |
| 0:27.8 | spending review and we're going to be talking about that for the rest of the |
| 0:31.8 | week and we're going to be talking about it today as well because Katie |
| 0:35.4 | Prescott, BBC Business Correspondent, is at St Nick's Market in Bristol talking to some business |
| 0:41.2 | owners. |
| 0:42.2 | Hello Katie. Hi Adam. |
| 0:43.3 | What a week to come back, eh? |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah, I mean, I've never been away, but welcome. |
| 0:47.6 | I just assume everyone's on holiday at the same time as me. |
| 0:50.2 | Right, give me a little insight into St Nick's Market. |
| 0:53.0 | St Nick's Market is stuffed full of independent traders. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a beautiful space. It was built in 1740 something |
| 1:01.0 | and it's a real higgledy pickled |
| 1:02.6 | maze of little independent shops and one thing I noticed |
| 1:06.2 | is that a lot of the stalls have punning names. |
| 1:09.4 | My dream. |
| 1:10.9 | So I wondered if we could play a little game of guess the shot from the pun. |
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