The Birthday Blues

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

During lockdown Downing Street staff got together inside to celebrate the PM's big day. The rules at the time meant that most indoor gatherings of more than two people were banned. Laura and Adam react to the latest... Is war imminent in Ukraine? The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse is in a hotel in Kyiv... And the BBC’s Jean Mackenzie has been looking into the trafficking of young girls from Romania to the UK, in order to be pimped out for sex. She tells us about her worrying findings. Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with John Murphy, Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. The studio director was Emma Crowe.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello. Who has a birthday on the 19th of June?
0:09.0	KSI, the YouTuber, Paula Abdul, who needs no explanation, and the Prime Minister for
0:16.6	now, Boris Johnson. Why are we talking about this? All will become very clear on this
0:22.0	episode of newscast.
0:24.3	Newscast from the BBC
0:26.0	that will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is.
0:30.3	Now, if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory.
0:34.6	Combined with contract-tasting, tax-tasting, tracing food.
0:40.2	Yes, yes, yes.
0:41.8	I'm vegan, so of course I don't like meatball.
0:44.9	Let's backslide please.
0:45.9	Blair, Blair, Blair,
0:47.8	Lose, Lose, Lose.
0:50.9	Hello, it's Adam and the studio.
0:52.2	And it's Lauren and the different studio. Hello.
0:53.8	Oh, sitting still for once.
0:55.3	Yeah.
0:56.3	Although the news isn't saying still, far from it.
0:58.2	It's speeding up and getting faster and going in more directions.
1:02.3	Yes.
1:03.3	So we're recording this episode of newscast on Monday evening.
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