Summary
Newscast talks policing culture with the Culture Editor, Katie Razzall, who's sitting in for Adam. She chats to the BBC's Tom Symonds about what's happened since Dame Cressida Dick resigned.
We hear from Rufus Norris (at the National Theatre) and Erica Whyman (at the Royal Shakespeare Company) about what the industry has been through over the last few years, as well as their hopes for the future.
Louis Theroux is back to talk about his new doc series.
And Gogglebox's Scarlett Moffatt makes an appearance too!
This episode of Newscast was made by John Murphy, Georgia Coan, Ben Cooper and Danny Wittenberg. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, newscaster's already done when Louis met Adam, |
| 0:08.4 | but Adam's not here, so now it's when Louis met Katie. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, Louis Theroux. |
| 0:12.4 | Hello, Katie, how are you doing? |
| 0:13.9 | Well, I'm doing pretty well, |
| 0:15.0 | considering it's my first time |
| 0:16.2 | of presenting this program. |
| 0:17.9 | So far so good, I'll give you an A plus already. |
| 0:21.2 | Okay, thank you, and from someone as fabulous as you, |
| 0:23.3 | I'll take that, thank you very much. |
| 0:25.1 | Now you are back on our screens or about to be |
| 0:28.2 | for the first time for a new TV series. |
| 0:30.3 | Since 2018, you're in America with some pretty extreme characters, |
| 0:34.8 | certainly the first one. |
| 0:36.3 | You're out with the, I guess that builders are sort of |
| 0:38.4 | incarnation of the far right. |
| 0:40.1 | Why did you choose them? |
| 0:41.6 | Why did you want to do that? |
| 0:42.8 | I'm going back 25 years. |
| 0:44.5 | I've had a fascination with people who are in some sense |
| 0:49.1 | extreme or that their minds are taking them to places, |
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