The Newscast Review of the Year 2025
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Adam, Chris, Laura and Paddy go through the biggest stories of 2025 with the help of economics editor Faisal Islam and international editor Jeremy Bowen.
They also reveal what it was like to be on the inside as they happened, and discuss how Keir Starmer will reflect on his first full year as prime minister, how Donald Trump's tariffs reshaped the world's economy, and how a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was reached.
And we look at where the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and Zack Polanski’s Green Party have left politics in the UK.
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenters were Adam Fleming, Chris Mason, Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | If American politics is leaving you with a lot of questions, you're not alone. |
| 0:12.2 | On America's, we chat through what's really going on. |
| 0:15.3 | Make sense of what's happening in the US, with new podcast episodes arriving throughout the week. |
| 0:20.7 | America's, listen on BBC Sounds. Right, should we just... US, with new podcast episodes arriving throughout the week. America. |
| 0:21.4 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:24.2 | Right. |
| 0:24.7 | Should we just explain what's going on? |
| 0:26.4 | I hope someone will to me, yes. |
| 0:28.5 | So basically, we've just spent an hour and 15 minutes in the newscast studio recording a |
| 0:33.8 | review of the year. |
| 0:34.7 | Is that long? |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.2 | I mean, it flew by. |
| 0:36.9 | Time flies when you're having fun, Chris. Yes. And we were asked to do this by Radio 4 so that Radio 4 listeners could have a blast of the newscast vibe, which they're listening to on Boxing Day. But you can listen to this episode of Newscast from Christmas Eve on BBC Sounds, and we're recording it on the 12th of December. Clear? I hope there's going to be a test or chart. About what day it is. It's kind of like the multiverse of madness, isn't it? We've gone quantum. So we are pre-Christmas in a digital space, and we are post-Christmas in an analogue space. And we're recording this bit of newscast after we just recorded the episode. Yeah. Which means Laura's gone |
| 1:14.2 | to go and do something else. space and we are post-Christmas in an analogue space. And we're recording this bit of |
| 1:10.9 | newscast after we just recorded the episode. Yeah. Which means Laura's gone to go |
| 1:14.4 | do something else. So Laura's not here right now. So we're actually in a time, we're in a |
| 1:18.6 | time gap, a warp. Yeah. And we're now going to go back in time to look at some of the |
| 1:23.6 | momentous things that happened in 2025 in a newscast style. |
| 1:28.3 | Newscast. |
| 1:29.9 | Newscast from the BBC. |
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