The Strike Before Christmas

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Rail passengers face disruption in the festive period. Adam talks it through with Chris, who is travelling on a train from Birmingham, where he was quizzing the Labour leader on his immigration policy. Madeleine Sumption, from the Migration Advisory Committee, climbs aboard too and assesses how Labour's approach could work. And the Newscast World Cup sweepstake intensifies after the tournament sees some surprising results. We chat to Steve Crossman, from the World Cup Daily Podcast. This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming and made by Sam Bonham with Amy Elizabeth, Chris Flynn and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, picture the scene.
0:06.2	I was making a little guest appearance on Jeremy Vines'
0:09.1	lunchtime show on Radio 2 on Tuesday, lunchtime.
0:12.7	And I thought, great, I can banter with him
0:14.6	about the fact he's in the newscast sweepstake
0:17.1	for the World Cup.
0:18.2	Oh, contrary.
0:19.3	One of the things we've got running at the moment
0:21.1	is our sweepstake for the World Cup.
0:22.9	So like every workplace, we've done a workplace
0:25.5	World Cup sweepstake of the best and brightest BBC presenters
0:28.9	and correspondence.
0:29.7	And I don't know if you know, but you got Australia.
0:32.0	Oh, brilliant.
0:33.6	I actually know someone did send me an email about that,
0:35.8	but I haven't opened it yet.
0:36.8	Yeah, I sure had to know it's my situation.
0:39.5	They're not out yet, are they?
0:40.9	Not yet.
0:42.9	It's not.
0:43.9	At least he knows now.
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