BONUS! Live At Castfest: The Newscast Q&A!
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What was the atmosphere like at Castfest?
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I could take a pullover and a roof rack, maybe Matrix LED lights and a certain metal color, if I could decide which one. Now you can get a limited edition of the Skoda model for 1,500 euros in additional equipment. Ask more about Skoda's re-sale movement. Hello, I've got another bonus episode from this weekend's Castfest for you. This was when we brought together lots of the BBC News podcasts at the BBC's historic Maida Vale studios and it was great fun and thank you to everyone who came along and made it such a good day. What you're going to hear now is the question and answer session that me, Henry and Chris did with some of the newscasters who were there. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Humanity's next great voyage begins.
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Nostalgia will not bring back the old order. Six seven. Yeah. It's supposed to be me as a doctor. Daddy has also a special connotation.
Ooh la la. Thinking about it like a panto helped.
Do we play music now or what do we do? My first thought as you were applauding was like, oh, it's very nice that they're applauding, but I was like, oh, it's quite a long way to the stage, and then we'll have to pap around, and then you'll have to keep applauding for ages and ages and ages. Then my second thought was, I've just got this really rubbish unbranded cup.
That's because you smashed the newscast one.
Yes, so just so you know, in the other room, when we were doing newscast, it I was like, let's go and chat to everyone in the audience. And so I moved my microphone, which was on a stand, and it tipped over, and it managed to land on the table directly on top of a newscast mug, which then smashed in a terrible Omen-style way.
Did you notice Adam's use of the passive there? It tipped over. I constantly tease my kids about this. Yeah, exactly. The active and the passive voice.
So the idea of this is that me, Henry, and Chris will be fielding your questions on, I think, any subject whatsoever. Right, okay. We've got a question from Rohit. Where are you, Rohit? Hello, Rohit. Fire away. Hi.
So my question is, which two current politicians would you ship to be the next big podcasting duo?
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Emily Thornberry and Ollie Robbins. Somebody is trying to dream up that to try and bid for them to do a podcast. I've heard enough of the two of them for a lifetime, actually.
So that's a fascinating question. Because it's not always the case that those who end up... If you rewind sort of ten years, even less than that, to the time when Rory Stewart was a government minister... You know, here's a very kind of erudite, well-read, academic, well-travelled chap, but I'm not sure many people, perhaps even Rory himself, would have thought that the thing he would end up going on to do and be perhaps more well-known for than being a Secretary of State was being a podcaster. So it's not always predictable, I don't think, who those people might be. Although certainly in the political sphere, it usually involves you losing your job in politics first. LAUGHTER
That's what I was going to say. I think the answer to your question, Rohit, is which two politicians are going to lose their jobs next? I mean, I think that really is the question. It is a has-been thing.
But the brutal truth is, you know, for people in the political world, podcasting is the next best alternative, whereas we just do it for a day job anyway.
Look at it the other way round, because look at Gavin Newsom, the Democrat governor of California. He does a podcast where he deliberately goes out to speak to people that are of a different political view of his, and he's using that as one of the building blocks for his presidential run.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What was the atmosphere like at Castfest?
0:00–5:28
2
What questions did the audience ask the Newscast team?
5:28–15:11
3
Which politicians would make an interesting podcast duo?
15:11–22:36
4
How can politicians leverage podcasting for their careers?
22:36–34:57
5
What challenges does the Labour Party face in leadership?
34:57–36:50