The Week: NHS Reforms, Benefit Battles and Tariff Tactics
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam, Vicki, Faisal and Nick discuss Starmer’s attempts to speed up government, a possible fight over benefit changes and whether the PM is going to push back more on President Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello. |
| 0:06.7 | Now, Nick and Vicky, you've had a couple of days to think about what your contribution to the newscast playlist will be. |
| 0:13.4 | And this is what we've been doing all week on newscast on the podcast on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:17.0 | And Faisal was a few days early. |
| 0:19.6 | We've been inspired by the King who did his first ever playlist on Apple Music, which I still can't quite believe. |
| 0:27.1 | We're doing a newscast playlist. |
| 0:28.9 | And here's where we've got to so far. |
| 0:30.3 | So obviously I picked Firework by Katie Perry. |
| 0:33.3 | Not to name drop, but basically I saw her performing that to the king on his coronation. |
| 0:39.0 | Alex Forsyth went for Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, which was convenient because we were talking about a by-election that day. |
| 0:45.2 | So who's born to run in the Roncorn byelaction? |
| 0:48.2 | Faisal, you went for? |
| 0:50.4 | Cold Little Heart, and I don't know the name of the song by Michael Coonooka, which I'd seen the night before. |
| 0:56.0 | I didn't realize we had to make some sort of joke. No, you don't. No, you don't. Oh no. You just did it from the heart. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay, yeah, I went from the heart. |
| 1:00.0 | And for people who don't know Michael Kewanuka, what's his genre? |
| 1:03.0 | It's kind of like solely sort of rock. It's quite difficult to pin down. It's beautiful. It's absolutely beautiful. Okay, check him out, as I have been doing this week as a result of your recommendation. |
| 1:13.7 | Darshini David went for The Bar Song by Shabuzzi. |
| 1:16.8 | I don't know why she picked that, other than it's a great song. |
| 1:19.9 | And also, we were talking about alcohol tariffs. |
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