Summary
What connects a Chinese tennis star, the new Culture Secretary and a viral karaoke show? Adam explains why the answer is Twitter, with a load of great voices for this bumper Tuesday episode...
The BBC's new Culture Editor, Katie Razzall, was watching the Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries. BBC China's John Sudworth and Kerry Allen have been following the tale of the tennis legend, Peng Shuai. And Jacob McLaughlin, from Manchester, really knows how to host an online karaoke gig!
Today's Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Georgia Coan, Ben Cooper, Rachel Judah and Ros Jones. The studio director was Emma Crowe.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello. |
| 0:05.8 | Today there was a news story that made me realize |
| 0:08.1 | I'm just getting very old, |
| 0:09.4 | because I kind of didn't understand very much of it |
| 0:11.6 | or recognize all the names in it. |
| 0:13.5 | But the person at the heart of it is here on newscast now |
| 0:17.0 | to explain it all to me. |
| 0:18.6 | And it's Jacob McGlocklin, |
| 0:20.2 | who's 18 years old from Manchester. |
| 0:21.9 | Hello, Jacob. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello. |
| 0:23.8 | Right, tell me in that old person, |
| 0:26.4 | do we friendly terms? |
| 0:27.9 | What you actually did? |
| 0:29.3 | Basically an online karaoke session. |
| 0:32.0 | And this is in Twitter Spaces. |
| 0:33.7 | This was in Twitter Spaces, that is correct. |
| 0:35.9 | And what's in Twitter Spaces? |
| 0:37.6 | So I'm the host, obviously everybody can hear me, |
| 0:40.3 | everybody can join. |
| 0:41.6 | And then I'll select people who have requested |
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