The West(minster) Wing
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Are pubs and restaurants in the North going to be forced to close next week? And meet Westminster’s answer to C.J. Cregg!
Studio Directors: Andy Mills and Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weisz and Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Laura, you missed the opening ceremony for the newscast email inbox. |
| 0:08.8 | Was there a ceremony? |
| 0:09.8 | There was, yeah, in the last episode. |
| 0:11.8 | Well, I sat in the studio, we played some music and that was basically it. |
| 0:15.6 | But have we had any emails? Because that would be embarrassing if you'd announce the email address and nobody sent a message. |
| 0:20.3 | We have had loads. Oh, cool. Loads. And I'm just going to read out some of them now. This is from Mike. Oh no I maybe shouldn't read this one out. Please please please can we drop the over apologetic outro about |
| 0:35.1 | using stamina and meandering chats. I'm Scottish and despite living in London I |
| 0:39.1 | don't identify with the English self-effacing apologetic mindset and it makes me shrivel up with |
| 0:44.1 | embarrassment every time I hear from it. Well luckily for you Mike Chris isn't |
| 0:48.4 | working on this episode. You've just got two hardworking Scots. |
| 0:51.1 | He just say I hope this finds you well keep up the |
| 0:53.7 | otherwise amazing work. Thank you Mike. Right and then Sam has emailed. Sam hello |
| 0:59.0 | Sam. Oh no. Is it worse than that? Thanks to a consistently great podcast. |
| 1:05.0 | But! |
| 1:07.0 | Chris Mason saying our meandering chats will miraculously make its way to your phone is the Achilles heel of your otherwise perfect show. |
| 1:14.8 | Maybe having an email address isn't such a good idea. |
| 1:19.2 | Oh Sam, that's, oh dear. |
| 1:20.9 | I think the people have spoken and I think we might have to get rid of the |
| 1:23.8 | outro the Chris Mason outro. I think as a consultation with two |
| 1:27.3 | listeners I think that's the decision made. Yeah sorry Chris. Actually if you got suggestions for our new outro, send them to our new inbox. |
| 1:37.0 | And to just cheer you up, Chris, oh, this is from Zesha in Manchester. |
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