Teacher, Batman, Sunak, Spy
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A case of old-school spying in Berlin?
A security guard working for the British Embassy in Germany has been arrested, accused of spying for Russia. Newscast has been to our very own “GCHQ,” aka Gordon Corera HQ…
And we send up the bat signal for comic book expert, Susana Polo, and ask why Batman and Robin are revealing new sides to their identity at the moment.
Today's Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj, with Danny Wittenberg and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Mike Regaard. Sam Bonham is the assistant editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, this is one of those episodes where we tried to reveal statistics using bargain |
| 0:10.4 | basement sound effects. Here it goes. The figures for the growth in the economy were out today |
| 0:16.9 | unveiled by Rishi Sunak and it shows that the UK economy grew by 4.8% between April and June. |
| 0:25.0 | However, the economy is still 4.4% smaller than it was before the pandemic. |
| 0:32.0 | It's going so well. But this goodish economic news comes against the |
| 0:38.8 | backdrop of reports of tension between the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson, which of course the |
| 0:44.7 | Chancellor was asked about by our economics editor Fais Lislam. |
| 0:48.1 | We work very well together and we united and ensuring that our economy recovers as quickly and as strongly as possible. |
| 0:57.0 | That's my focus and today's figures show that my plan for jobs is working. |
| 1:01.0 | And Boris Johnson versus Rishi Sunak's been a bit of a theme for the last few weeks. My favorite episode of it was a poll in the male newspaper on Wednesday which pitted the two men against each other, and all sorts of things like leadership |
| 1:15.1 | and good in a crisis, and best of all, who would you trust to fix a wobbly shelf? Boris Johnson was the choice of 7% of people. |
| 1:25.1 | And Rishi Sunak was the choice of 44%. |
| 1:29.4 | All that's missing from that is a proper name to describe their relationship, like when the |
| 1:37.3 | tensions between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair were known as the TBGBs. |
| 1:41.3 | So if you've got any ideas, let know and the name of our podcast as you know is |
| 1:46.3 | newscast. |
| 1:47.3 | Newscast. |
| 1:48.3 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:49.9 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:54.0 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 1:58.4 | Combined with contact testing, |
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