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Newscast

Unfriendly Fires

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Energy bills could rise further

Martin Lewis says for the first time ever, he is telling consumers to do nothing! He explains to Laura, Adam and Chris what is going on with energy prices and gives his advice.

And Robert Jenrick, former housing minister, says that parliament cannot buckle over planning reforms. He also admits that the cost of living crisis is going to be challenging for all of us.

Today’s episode of Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj, with Caitlin Hanrahan and Danny Wittenberg. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:05.0

Now if it wasn't for complicated international music rights and legal issues,

0:09.2

we'd be starting this episode with our new walk-on music blue cassette by friendly fires

0:14.7

which was Boris Johnson's walk-on music at the Tory conference. But yes, due to these things not

0:19.3

being legal we'll just talk about it instead. And Laura it it was a classic case, wasn't it, of pop star complains about music that politicians chooses his walk on music, which basically happens every year.

0:30.0

It pretty much does happen every year, I'm afraid.

0:32.0

But it's a standard, you know, there are some things about conference that remain the same.

0:36.0

I was wondering though, what would happen if you sang it?

0:38.0

Yes, that's true.

0:40.0

The lawyers would be fine, but the listeners would not be.

0:43.4

Probably better then just to stay safe and not try, but it was one of these little things, wasn't it?

0:50.3

Also I think what is hard, it's hard to capture on TV what the atmosphere is actually like in

0:56.2

those halls when you've got these people who kind of have like a religious

0:59.6

faith in their leader and some of them I mean we met someone who'd been queuing since five o'clock in the morning

1:04.7

for that Boris Johnson's speech and the music and there's always a film beforehand and there is a real

1:09.5

atmosphere in the room and you need a bit of that you You need something, don't you? You can't just sort of,

1:14.0

particularly actually yesterday with the Prime Minister where there wasn't a kind of, nobody introduced him, did they? There wasn't even a voice of God saying,

1:20.7

and now here is, blah, blah, blah. Just the music and then the roar of the crowd so the music kind of matters even more

1:26.2

and campaign songs also kind of end up sticking in your in your mind don't they and they

1:32.0

and they get famous as well.

1:33.2

The Clintons had Fleetwood Mac, and they don't stop thinking about tomorrow.

1:36.4

And then of course we had D-Reem.

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