Summary
Liz Truss has called off her primetime BBC interview. So instead, Adam interviews Nick Robinson, who was meant to be asking the questions, on why these programmes matter. And Dr Dame Jenny Harries, boss of the UK Health Security Agency, gives us an update on monkeypox and responds to comments made by Truss that she would never impose another lockdown. Today’s Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | So Nick, you've got a free evening. |
| 0:07.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:09.0 | Other than I am actually popping onto BBC One to tell people why they're not going to |
| 0:14.4 | hear an interview or see an interview with Liz Truss. |
| 0:17.6 | He's likely to be our Prime Minister in a better week's time, but I'll be explaining |
| 0:21.0 | to the viewers of the one show that she's not there and why. |
| 0:25.5 | And the tiny silver lining is that rather than you getting ready for a big Prime Term |
| 0:28.9 | interview, you've got some time to talk to us about the nature of interviews and politics |
| 0:32.7 | and the democratic process. |
| 0:33.7 | So that is a bit of a silver lining. |
| 0:35.8 | And the other silver lining is that impressionist extraordinaire, Jan Ravens from Dead Ringer |
| 0:41.2 | is who does a frankly uncanny impression of Liz Truss tweeted this morning saying, you've |
| 0:46.0 | got my number and the thing is we have our number two. |
| 0:48.4 | So she's here. |
| 0:49.4 | Hi Jan. |
| 0:50.4 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:51.4 | Hello. |
| 0:52.4 | Actually I feel I want to hear from Liz first if that's okay. |
| 0:54.7 | Well, I have to say that I am somebody who, as you know, is always honest and up front. |
| 1:04.1 | And I don't yet have the details of why I'm not there. |
| 1:11.9 | But as soon as I have them Nick and Adam, I will be writing to you with the details. |
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