Summary
A political picnic on Westminster’s College Green whilst parliament is on its summer recess. Adam and Chris review the key moments of the last 12 months including Partygate, the war in Ukraine and Prime Minister Johnson’s downfall with two of the journalists who helped break the news: Pippa Crerar, outgoing Political Editor of the Daily Mirror and BBC Political Correspondent Ione Wells. This episode was made by Sam Bonham, Alix Pickles, Clare Williamson, Cordelia Hemming and Danny Wittenberg. The technical producer was Emma Crowe.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, something slightly different for this episode of newscast. |
| 0:08.1 | A couple of days ago, I popped down to Westminster to that patch of grass called College Green, |
| 0:14.0 | although there wasn't much grass there, because it's not rained for ages, to record a political |
| 0:19.4 | picnic with some top political thinkers. |
| 0:22.2 | And the reason we decided to do this is this is kind of the end of one political year and |
| 0:27.6 | the start of another, so it's kind of a good opportunity to look back at some of the |
| 0:31.6 | epic events of the last few months. |
| 0:34.2 | All that in this special episode of newscast. |
| 0:36.7 | Newscast. |
| 0:37.7 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:39.3 | Nobody said to me, this is an event that is against the rules. |
| 0:42.9 | Beyond the back better, blah, blah, blah, green economy, blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:47.3 | I've absolutely apologized for using the word scorn. |
| 0:50.3 | Calm down. |
| 0:51.3 | Enough is enough. |
| 0:52.3 | Only enough it was tractors that I was looking at. |
| 0:55.0 | This is not the Russian people's war. |
| 0:57.4 | It's an event like this, but it's always this, son. |
| 0:59.6 | I am virtually out of tools to help people now. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, it's Adam on a very dry brown College Green. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, and it's Chris, also on the same patch of, I was going to say grass, it's not even |
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