The Newscast Christmas Party 2021
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
...and you're invited! Singer Jessie Ware and her mum/podcast co-host Lennie, Radio 1’s Greg James and author Bella Mackie, plus filmmaker Richard Curtis and broadcaster Emma Freud, are the special guests at Newscast's virtual Christmas party this year. A bit of a family affair!
It’s been another year of big news, so as a seasonal treat, we talk about the politics… of Christmas food, we review the year in music, and we celebrate the best festive films.
The Newscast Christmas special was produced by Daniel Wittenberg with Alix Pickles, Sally Abrahams and Ros Jones. The sound design was by Emma Crowe and the studio manager was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
Thanks to: Twentieth Century Fox and Hughes Entertainment and Chris Columbus for Home Alone 2. BRON Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Scott Free Productions and Ridley Scott for House of Gucci. Gary Sanchez Productions, Project Zeus and Hyperobject Industries and Jesse Armstrong for Succession. New Line Cinema, Guy Walks into a Bar Productions, Gold/Miller Productions and Jon Favreau for Elf.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, well, Christmas party season didn't turn out quite as we'd hoped. |
| 0:11.3 | Thank you, Omicron. |
| 0:13.2 | But to cheer ourselves up, we thought we would drop the newscast Christmas party episode |
| 0:19.1 | earlier than planned. |
| 0:21.6 | And like all newscasts Christmas parties that have gone before, well actually the one that's |
| 0:26.7 | gone before, it features some well-known |
| 0:29.4 | podcasters, just some other interesting people too. |
| 0:33.6 | As usual we had to meet up over Zoom because we couldn't all be in the same place at the |
| 0:37.0 | same time. |
| 0:38.7 | And as is tradition, is it cheesy doorbell sound effect? |
| 0:42.4 | Newscast. |
| 0:43.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:45.2 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:49.3 | Now if that is the argument then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 0:53.6 | Combined, we contract taste, contact tasting, tortesting, |
| 0:58.3 | precinct food, yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm vegan so of course I don't like meatball. |
| 1:04.0 | Next slide please. |
| 1:05.3 | Blair Blair Blair, lose, lose, lose, lose. |
| 1:17.9 | I want that for my actual doorbell. |
| 1:19.4 | Right, let me pretend to walk over to the door and open it. |
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