The Week: Is There A Path To Peace?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam and Chris are joined by Lyse Doucet, chief international correspondent and Stephanie Flanders, head of government and economics at Bloomberg and host of Trumponomics to look at the latest developments in the US-Israeli war with Iran. They discuss the US’s 15 point plan for peace and Iran’s response and why both sides' proposals are unlikely to lead to meaningful negotiations.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, breaking news about a very important deadline. |
| 0:09.0 | No, we're not talking about Donald Trump and Iran. |
| 0:11.0 | If you would like to apply for tickets for cast fest, |
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| 0:21.4 | applications by a little bit. So if you fancy coming to see me, Chris and the others, and some |
| 0:26.5 | of our podcasting cousins making their podcasts in real life on that Saturday in April, |
| 0:31.5 | then the instructions for applying for tickets are in the episode's description of this |
| 0:36.0 | very episode of Newscast, which as usual at this time |
| 0:39.1 | of the week is going to be our roundup of the momentous events of the week, which we recorded |
| 0:43.6 | on Thursday night, which was broadcast on BBC one after question time. |
| 0:48.1 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. |
| 0:53.4 | I was the tappletail in the class |
| 0:54.6 | got i have an apology please i trust almost nobody that daddy has to sometimes do strong language |
| 1:00.1 | next time in moscow i feel delulu with no solulu take me down to down the downy street |
| 1:05.1 | let's go have a tour blimey hello it's adam in the newscast studio. And Chris in the newscast studio. |
| 1:11.5 | And Lee Ducet is in the newscast studio. And joining us this week is Stephanie Flanders from Bloomberg. It's a delight to see you all. And a delight to have you here. Now, you launched that podcast, Trumponomics, didn't you? Did you foresee oil heading towards, I don't know, $200 a barrel as a result of Donald Trump? We have, you know, had plenty to talk about since Donald Trump came back to office |
| 1:30.8 | and that is just the least of it, I would say. |
| 1:32.7 | Right. |
| 1:33.2 | Lots to discuss as the conflict in the Middle East enters its fourth week. |
| 1:37.2 | Lease, you and I have convened most days on various BBC programs, Five Live newscast, |
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