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Hello, think of the really great histories that have been written. I'm thinking like Gibbons

history of the decline of fall, the Roman Empire, Simon Sharma's history of Britain.

Ladies and gentlemen, please add to that virtual bookshelf. Dan Snow's official history

of newscast, which he has recorded to mark this week's moment when we hit the milestone

of 700 daily episodes. Here is Dan Snow, historian and presenter of History Hit, podcast,

with the history of this podcast. This week, the great audio-visual extravaganza,

that is the newscast podcast, celebrates it's 700 episodes since becoming a five days a week

podcast. Plus of course, once a week BBC One television show. The mighty episode,

political football on Monday 21st November 2022 marked a podcast, Septus Centennial.

That's 700th anniversary. Before newscasts became an essential part of our daily routines,

it started life as electioncast, then Brexitcast, we all remember that, and many of us were

loyal listeners to Adam, Chris, Laura and Dr Adler chewing over the Brexit feast every week.

But since then, so much has changed in the world around us and so much on newscast too.

So let's leaf through the binders and look back over 700 episodes of newscast,

or rather coronavirus newscast, because it was under this moniker that the podcast was thrust

into the increasingly crowded daily podcast market on March 16th, 2020, with an episode titled

drastic action. Social distancing and periods of isolation became the new normal. But newscast was

there every night at around 9pm, keeping newscasters company and bringing you all the latest updates

from Downing Street, cooking advice from Nigeria, and insight from a growing list of BBC journalists

coming from remote outposts such as the Windsor Bureau. Months later, Adam and Co lost the coronavirus

prefix, the team talked about the issues of our time, tech and puzzles. Adam had his ice cream stolen

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