4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello newscasters, Chris Basin here. |
0:01.8 | This is our Thursday episode. |
0:03.6 | The day when the podcast is also on the telly BBC One |
0:06.7 | after question time and the BBC iPlayer. |
0:09.2 | If you're not already, why don't you try subscribing to us |
0:11.6 | or following us on BBC Sounds or wherever you find your podcasts |
0:15.3 | and then we'll pop up in your feeds every time |
0:17.8 | we publish an episode. |
0:19.2 | Thanks a lot. |
0:20.2 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:24.6 | Hello, if you were listening to newscast the podcast |
0:26.8 | on BBC Sounds on Wednesday, you would have heard us |
0:29.3 | talking about the evidence that was given to the COVID inquiry |
0:32.1 | by Helen McNamara, who was the deputy cabinet secretary |
0:35.8 | at the start of the pandemic. |
0:36.8 | So a really senior civil servant. |
0:38.9 | What happened after she'd given evidence |
0:40.9 | and after we'd recorded the episode |
0:42.9 | is that the inquiry published on the website |
0:45.1 | her full witness statement, which was more than 100 pages long. |
0:48.8 | So over my coffee this morning, I decided to have a read of it |
0:51.4 | to see if there was any kind of extra clues in there. |
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