The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today, Baroness Casey tells Newscast that the judge in the case of two boys who were spared jail after being found guilty of rape was "wrong". The boys were not given custodial sentences following their convictions for raping two girls in separate attacks in 2025 and 2024.
Speaking to Adam and Alex at the Hay Festival, Louise Casey also discusses her career at the helm of some the UK’s biggest inquiries and reviews, including the ongoing adult social care commission and last year’s grooming gangs report.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Right, I'm still in the tent. Hey, there's a whole load of newscasters here. |
| 0:11.0 | All kind of, they're looking a bit hot, I mean in the temperature sense. |
| 0:15.0 | Are you all doing you well? Yes. |
| 0:17.0 | Yes. |
| 0:18.0 | And also joining me in the hot seat today's Alex Vosite. Hello Alex. Hello Adam. |
| 0:22.8 | Where have you travelled from from any questions this week? So not so far. The West Midlands. |
| 0:27.3 | Yeah. So always out and about this week. I've come from the West Midlands to be here at Hay today. |
| 0:33.6 | And next week we're going to be in Lincolnshire. Okay, always on the road. Always. |
| 0:38.1 | So we will get on with the classic episode of Newscast in a second, but I just wanted to read out a message I got from Instagram. If you want to follow me on Instagram, it's Radham Fleming, because my first name is Robert and Adam Fleming was taken. And it is from Rosalia. And she was listening to yesterday's episode, and she she said I'm writing because frankly I got a bit |
| 0:55.3 | upset at the newscast episode you recorded at the Hay Festival. Being a proud member of the |
| 1:00.0 | hugely misunderstood Gen Zed, I did not appreciate the references to Gen Zeders as kids. These |
| 1:05.7 | kids are busy seeking jobs that are not made available by over 60s that are still lingering |
| 1:10.8 | in the workforce. |
| 1:15.6 | We don't have the youngest audience. |
| 1:20.6 | Personally, I'm 24 and I do not feel like a kid, especially because I'm being blamed on a daily basis by boomers in society that call us slackers and snowflakes. |
| 1:29.2 | I am none of the above. |
| 1:30.8 | So please, next time, defend us Gen Zeders from being called kids. |
| 1:35.0 | And I thought that's a valid response because we're having a big debate about youth unemployment and skills in the age of AI. |
| 1:40.9 | And then Rosalia ends her message in the best possible way. |
| 1:43.5 | She says to me, |
| 1:46.7 | Adam, you're one of us after all. |
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