The Mysterious Tony Abbott

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Politics resumes at Westminster today - and Adam is reunited with Chris Mason for a well-needed chat about what they've been up to on their first day back. And what is the former Australian PM Tony Abbott doing in town? The Sydney Morning Herald's Latika Bourke explains, and tells us everything we need to know about the man who once ate a raw onion on camera.

Studio Director: Mike Regaard Producer: Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, newscast is back as a daily podcast after the summer holidays.
0:11.2	And last night I did something I hadn't done in ages. I went to see a film at
0:15.3	the cinema. It was Tenet by Christopher Nolan, that very confusing sort of
0:20.9	time-travely film that makes your brain hurt. I was going to try and
0:25.0	make this podcast in honor of Tenet where you could play it forward and
0:28.7	backwards and it would be the same, but that's just far too complicated. So instead
0:32.4	I'm going to do an homage to the cinema by telling you what's coming up as if it was a trailer Coming up. We'll witness the return. We'll witness the return of Chris Mason.
0:54.8	Like a coiled spring, ready for whatever news brings in autumn.
0:58.6	Then we'll delve into the mysterious past of the former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
1:04.4	who's appeared in Britain.
1:06.2	Well I'm lucky enough to be in London.
1:08.2	And we'll get the latest on the global travel chaos,
1:11.5	all that on this edition of Newscast.
1:14.2	Newscast.
1:15.0	Newscast from the BBC.
1:16.7	What is this virus?
1:17.9	How does it spread?
1:19.1	How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones?
1:21.6	No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is.
1:24.2	There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests
1:29.9	carried out across the UK.
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