The Week: Sandwiches, Planning and the EU
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Adam, Chris, Alex and Faisal discuss why sandwiches have become the hot topic in Westminster, what the UK’s future relationship with the EU could look like, and planning reforms.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, here is your Friday Helping of Newscast, which is our TV show, which was on BBC One on Thursday night, |
| 0:10.8 | where we look back at everything that's happened this week with Friends of the podcast. |
| 0:14.9 | Faisla's economics editor and somebody with an interest in tech, you'll remember when YouTube first started, which year? |
| 0:21.9 | I'm going to say, 2000, 2005. |
| 0:27.4 | Correct. |
| 0:28.2 | Oh, good, nice. |
| 0:29.9 | I remember going up to my editor at Channel 4 News saying, this, uh, Chubiubiub. |
| 0:34.8 | Chubiub. |
| 0:35.7 | It's like, this is big. |
| 0:37.3 | This is really big. |
| 0:38.3 | And did they bite? |
| 0:39.1 | Well, actually, that is this a year that I actually met Sergey Brinner. |
| 0:42.1 | No, Larry Page, not Sergey Brio. |
| 0:43.3 | No, name drop. |
| 0:44.3 | And he said, and he said, and he told me, informed me that he didn't read newspapers. |
| 0:50.1 | And I reported back to my then boss. |
| 0:51.7 | I said, it's an issue here. I think these tech guys, they're not really into new. |
| 0:56.4 | Well, we'll see which one went to the long time. |
| 0:58.7 | The reason I bring this up is not because we're having a Christmas pub quiz, |
| 1:01.2 | much as I'd love to do that, is because newscast, this podcast, has entered 2005 this week |
| 1:07.8 | because you can now watch episodes of newscast the podcast every single weekday on YouTube. |
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