The Week: Keir Starmer in the (Corporate) Hot Seat
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at a tricky week for the Prime Minister where he has faced difficult questions over his judgement. Adam, Chris, Paddy and Alex are re-united in the studio for the return of the Newscast BBC 1 show. What have they all made of the row over the pay of Sue Gray? Is it a problem for Starmer that he's top of the freebie league table? What did Alex learn travelling with the PM to Italy? 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://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming, Chris Mason, Paddy O’Connell and Alex Forsyth. It was made by Jack McClaren with Anna Harris and Sam Mclaren. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello and welcome to the 1,501 episode of Newscast |
| 0:09.9 | after we celebrated our big milestone in the last episode. |
| 0:13.6 | We've got a slightly new format for you now for this episode. |
| 0:17.5 | On a Friday for the foreseeable future, |
| 0:20.1 | we're gonna be gathering together the podcasting family to chew over the political events of the week. |
| 0:26.3 | So a little bit of a recap about what's happened, but also lots of insight from friends of the pod |
| 0:32.1 | and people who are really plugged in about what it means and what it is. of which we're recorded one Thursday night. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:44.0 | I like landscapes. |
| 0:45.0 | You have a bright future behind you. |
| 0:47.0 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 0:49.0 | We're effectively run in this country |
| 0:51.0 | by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
| 0:53.2 | We don't understand the essence of Brad. |
| 0:54.8 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 0:57.0 | It's just getting silly now. |
| 0:58.6 | Take me down to Downy Street. |
| 1:00.2 | Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:02.1 | Fly me. Hello, it's Adam in the newscaster. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. |
| 1:05.0 | And Chris in this, yeah, sparkly new studio. |
| 1:08.0 | And Alex also in the studio. |
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