The 1500th Episode

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today, on Newscast’s 1500th episode, Chris and Alex join to mark the occasion, and talk about the politics of the day after the PM insisted he is “completely in control”.

He made the comment after the BBC revealed a row within government over staff pay.

Plus, the BBC has heard testimony from more than 20 female ex-employees who say former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed sexually assaulted or raped them as part of a new podcast series and Panorama film called Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods.

Its makers, Erica Gornall and Cassie Cornish-Trestrail, tell Adam about what they found.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Reeta Jobanputra. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, 1, 499 episodes ago,
0:09.4	me and Alex Vassyth were sitting in the BBC Brussels Bureau. It was my first day in my new job. Alex was
0:12.5	scythe sitting in the BBC Brussels Bureau. It was my first day in my new job.
0:14.8	You'd been there loads before Alex. A little while before.
0:17.1	There was a David Davis Michel Barnier press conference,
0:20.1	whatever happened to them. And Chris Mason was sat in London and we were ready to press record on our old tape recorder.
0:26.5	Yeah. To make a little podcast.
0:29.2	Yeah, blime. I can't believe it was that long ago. And we sort of did it as a little hobby, didn't we?
0:37.1	We did do it as a little, yeah, like a little side project. There was no like massive check from the BBC bosses to develop it.
0:44.0	It was your, it was the brainchild of you too, wasn't it?
0:46.0	And I think I just kind of got invited along for the ride.
0:48.6	And, and...
0:49.6	Well we needed somebody who knew something.
0:51.2	You did.
0:51.8	You'd been at that press conference.
0:53.0	I like that you called it the Brussels Bureau which it was but specifically where
0:57.7	newscast came from was like broom cupboards territory wasn't it in the
1:00.9	Brussels Bureau it was like kind of
1:02.8	couple of chairs huddled around couldn't even really fit in there properly quite
1:06.5	like rickety for nothing like this and the brilliant five live who
1:11.2	incubated it is that the right word? I think so yeah like a startup. But yeah how do
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