Summary
The last eight months in Westminster have been wild. It’s worth a recap.
We began the year in lockdown, with the NHS on the brink and the economy shrinking. Now, as Newscast heads off on our summer holidays, Adam and Chris take a trip down memory lane to find out where we’ve got to on some of the biggest talking points of this year, whether it’s the health or economic recovery from the coronavirus, international travel or trade in the post-Brexit world.
To help us, we listen to some of the headline political interviews we’ve done from our Westminster studios. We talk business with Liz Truss, get geeky with Ed Miliband, bitchy with Sir Alan Duncan and bougie with interior designer Celia Sawyer, and plenty more.
But first, we hear from a special guest about some of his most memorable soundbites of 2021 so far…
This episode of Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Caitlin Hanrahan. The studio manager was Emma Crowe. The editor was Emma Close.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, on today's episode, we're going to do a little wander down memory lane, |
| 0:09.0 | where Chris and I are going to listen back to some of the big political interviews we've done on newscast. |
| 0:14.0 | Now there were some names we couldn't lure into the studio or onto one of our zooms. |
| 0:19.0 | But there's somebody who can sort that out for us, Impression is John Coorshaw. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello John. |
| 0:25.0 | Good to be with you. |
| 0:26.0 | In person in the studio, it's amazing. |
| 0:28.0 | Do you know, we've missed this so much |
| 0:30.0 | and it's so nice to just appreciate the simple joys of just being in the same room and |
| 0:34.0 | interacting is this like a really good zoom-written link. Exactly this is like super |
| 0:39.2 | fast broadband 3D. Okay so I'm just thinking I mean we've I mean we've got some pretty big names, you're Liz Trusses, you read Millarbands. |
| 0:46.7 | We didn't get the Prime Minister though. |
| 0:48.8 | Sometimes he, I think he does get reflected. |
| 0:51.0 | I think you know, you've just got to sort of say a little bit of Latin, a little |
| 0:55.2 | bit of merriment just to create a feeling of amusement and diversion. I I I I I I I must try something I've been meaning to do for a long time |
| 1:06.3 | is say that Mrs Thatcher closed down the mines in order to help climate change I will try that one |
| 1:11.7 | let's see how I do with that. That's how good my judgment is. |
| 1:15.3 | Poir! Do you know what I've realized when I read a Boris Johnson quote, I can't tell whether I'm hearing |
| 1:20.3 | you read it or I'm actually hearing him say it. So that's how much you've percolated into my mind. |
| 1:24.7 | We had a few people from the Labour Front bench on Emily Thornbury was very it was very |
| 1:28.7 | popular with listeners we haven't had Kieer Starmer. How is your Kieer Starmer going now that he's been in post for quite some time? |
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