The Newscast Summer Tour

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Recorded live at Hay Festival, Adam and Alex look at whether President Trump has changed his mind about President Putin and how politician’s use statistics. Plus, Newscast continues trying to work out if the goverment’s change of policy on winter fuel allowance counts as a U-Turn.

They are joined by Anne Applebaum, journalist, historian and author of Autocracy Inc, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter statistician and author of The Art of Uncertainty, and comedian and broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke.

If you want to come and see an episode of Newscast recorded live you can find us at Crossed Wires on the 4th July, Latitude on the 24th July, and at the Edinburgh Fringe from the 4th August!

You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://discord.gg/m3YPUGv9

New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bit.ly/3ENLcS1 Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming and Alex Forsyth. It was made by Anna Harris. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Huge thanks to the BBC team at Hay, as well as Chris the festival organisers.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.1	Hello, we've got something a bit different for your bank holiday Monday episode of newscast.
0:09.7	We are embarking on a summer tour where we're popping up at various festivals across the UK.
0:16.3	And the first one where we're making our summer tour debut is at the Hay Literary Festival in the
0:22.9	Welsh Borders, where loads of people from the book world come and meet bookworms,
0:29.6	I mean that respectfully, and there's loads of talks and events, and the BBC's got a tent
0:34.4	there where various BBC programs record editions.
0:39.0	And one of them is newscast.
0:41.5	And that's what you're going to hear now.
0:43.2	An episode of newscast at the Hay Festival with some friends of the podcast, some of new friends
0:47.7	of the podcast, and a whole load of newscasters in the audience in a slightly windy tent.
0:53.8	Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has slightly windy tent. Newscast.
0:54.4	Newscast from the BBC.
0:56.1	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
0:59.1	Did I say that?
1:00.5	I can't believe I said that.
1:02.0	Next question.
1:02.8	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
1:05.3	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan.
1:08.3	I don't think I'm being rude.
1:09.7	I like landscapes.
1:10.5	Take me down to Downey Street.
	...

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