So pleased that
#BBCNewscast
is the most popular podcast of 2021 in the UK on
@BBCSounds
Includes..
👑 Prince William iv
🌍 COP specials from Glasgow
💉Emergency editions on Covid
⛪️Archbishop of Canterbury iv
Thanks to BBC News Pod team &
@adamfleming
@bbclaurak
@ChrisMasonBBC
👏
#BBCNewscast
is nominated in the British Podcast Awards.
Record audiences & big guests inc Prince William
Thanks to
@adamfleming
@bbclaurak
@ChrisMasonBBC
and our amazing team.
You can also vote for us in the Listeners’ Award👇
I’m doing a stint as editor of Sunday with
@bbclaurak
for 5 weeks. Loads of news making interviews and the v charming Hugh Jackman who opened up about masculinity. We thought the full version of the chat deserved a home, so you can find it on
@BBCiPlayer
👇
We've just recorded another
#Ukrainecast
with
@ggatehouse
&
@vicderbyshire
Will be published later.
#Ukrainecast
is currently the most listened to pod on the Apple Podcast charts. Glad it's providing useful information & analysis during these dark times.
🎙️
#BBCNewscast
was the most listened to podcast on
@BBCSounds
in the latest quarter.
🎙️We're doing particularly well with under 35 year olds.
🎙️
#Ukrainecast
still in top ten too.
Brilliant time to work on News Podcasts with booming audiences. V proud of the BBC News Pod team🙏
📢 There was an average 4.3 million people using
@BBCSounds
every week between July and September, with a record 4.53m during the week following the mini-budget
Learn more ➡️
Proud of our journalism on this important investigative podcast.
@joshbakerstory
forensically tests Shamima Begum's account, retracing her route from UK to Syria. It's a robust, public interest investigation into who she really is and what she really did.
Record figures for
#BBCNewscast
on
@BBCSounds
on Thurs. Huge demand for the Liz Truss BBC Local Radio interviews. Massive thanks to our colleagues across England for the gripping content. Listen to the Liz Truss X BBC Local Radio SUPERCUT from
#BBCNewscast
👇+ the final words on
#Ukrainecast
are always "Wherever you're listening in the world, take care"
On this episode
@bbclysedoucet
added "and thank you for caring"
We're going to stick with this for all our editions, as a thanks to our very engaged and committed listeners.
#Ukrainecast
- The story of "Taira" the patriotic paramedic, who told the terrible story of
#Mariupol
and now has her own painful story to tell. We also asked - why is Boris Johnson so popular in
#Ukraine
& what difference do drones make? A joy to join
@irenatar
.. do listen.
Why do names and how they're pronounced matter...
The children in this report do a great job of explaining why correct name pronunciation matters so much at school👇
Good tips too👍
Listen to the FULL
@bbclaurak
interview with the PM.
Plus the LK &
@adamfleming
take on what Liz Truss said and Michael Gove's comments. Includes the sound of Laura sprinting into the studio from the telly set and loud tea slurping noises 🏃♀️☕️😉
I’m going to talk to my kids about
@TVNaga01
’s
@BBCPanorama
story👇
What she experienced, the impact and the brilliant woman she is today
#letstalkaboutrace
Naga Munchetty: My first experience of racism is still 'really emotional and painful'
Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell will host brand new Saturday and Sunday episodes of the BBC’s most listened to podcast - Newscast.
The new episodes bring
#BBCNewscast
to the UK seven days a week. Listen on
@BBCSounds
this Saturday!
More info here:
Congrats to all the BBC local radio hosts & teams for this
@BPGPressGuild
award👇
You can hear them all in one place on
#bbcnewscast
Our most popular episode of all time on
@BBCSounds
🎙️
🎧
Credit to our friends at BBC Local Radio🙏
Thank you Judy for talking to
@bbclaurak
today. Viewers are getting in touch to say thanks for talking so openly and powerfully. Laura also asked Judy how she would like Frankie to be remembered. Full interview is 33 mins into this prog. It's very moving.
“We were still left… with unanswered questions”
Judy Thomas - whose daughter Frankie took her own life after viewing self-harm material online - wants bereaved families to have more access to information held by large tech companies
#BBCLauraK
🚨 Please listen to an important new podcast series from
@BBCNews
, hosted by
@bbclysedoucet
An end of day debrief between Lyse and
@BowenBBC
about what they’ve seen and what it means.
Calm, clear, contextualised analysis of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The days building up to Mother’s Day are often challenging for adopted children and for so many people who’ve experienced similar loss, sadness and separations. My thoughts are with anyone who’s navigating the complex emotions that surface at this time of year.
A massively popular member of our team. I am really going to miss our early morning editorial chats, her collection of hard hats and her no nonsense life advice! The Breakfast audience will really miss her warmth, wit and Biz knowledge. Massive luck 👍
BBC News Podcasts are very excited to work with
@FoxNikkiFox
and a brilliant team of specialist producers on an exciting new podcast
#AccessAll
Coming soon to
@BBCSounds
We all want to go on a night out with
@maitlis
💃🕺 with these great song choices for
@RealKenBruce
Tracks Of My Years on
@BBCRadio2
👇🎵
Just missing a bit of Chesney Hawkes 😉
Scrutinising for
#americast
references! 🇺🇸
Appreciate this review for
#Ukrainecast
& record audiences for BBC News Pods. We’ll keep on making the pod for as long as it’s useful. Thks to the listeners for questions Ukrainecast
@bbc
.co.uk
@ggatehouse
&
@vicderbyshire
All episodes👇
The Times have declared the 20 best podcasts to listen to this summer. Brilliant to see
@joshbakerstory
‘The Shamima Begum Story’ and
#Americast
in the list. All available on
@BBCSounds
Who is Rishi Sunak?
We've gone back through the
#BBCNewscast
archive.
🔵Interview with Sunak from 31st March:
🔵 Sunak's Will Smith comment from 31st March:
🔵Profile of Sunak from 17th August:
"Both Will Smith and me having our wives attacked - at least I didn't get up and slap anybody"
Chancellor Rishi Sunak tells
@BBCLauraK
he finds criticism aimed at his wife over shares she owns in a company operating in Russia "very upsetting"
#BBCNewscast
We always promised our audience that we would drop additional episodes if there was significant development in the conflict. Here's an extra episode of
#Ukrainecast
with
@vicderbyshire
and
@VitalyBBC
Thanks to
@fergalkeane47
who's our guest presenter on the weekend edition of
#Ukrainecast
Fergal discusses Russia’s strategy to take Kyiv and who Putin’s allies are +
@vicderbyshire
interview with the Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
🎙️Honoured that our
#Ukrainecast
100 Days episode has been shortlisted for the Association for International Broadcasting (AIBs) News Coverage Radio award. Thanks to the extraordinary team & our v engaged listeners 🌏
Pls listen for powerful testimony.
🎙️
@bbclysedoucet
&
@VitalyBBC
host this special
#Ukrainecast
Ukraine prepares for its first Christmas since the Russian invasion. Plus
@francis_scarr
on what Russian state 📺 said about Zelensky’s visit to the USA 🇺🇸👇(expect much more from Francis on UC in 2023).
Great to be back on
#Ukrainecast
today telling
@bbclysedoucet
and
@VitalyBBC
how Russian state TV covered Zelensky's visit to Washington and about a Russian singer's ode to the "Satan II" nuclear missile
What’s the story behind the pork pie plot?
@bbclaurak
breaks down how we got here.
Warning: Includes images of two BBC News presenters stuffing pork pies into their mouths.
#BBCNewscast
🎧
You’ve watched the critically acclaimed Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods by Jamie Roberts on
@BBCiPlayer
➡️
Now listen to
@visitjamie
in conversation with
@BBCkatyaadler
on
#TheGlobalStory
to hear about the making of “one of the most vital, remarkable pieces of
Opportunity to single out Technical Producer
@emma_crowe8
who made such a difference to the sound and the smooth running of
#Ukrainecast
The pod was created in 48 hours.
Can't underestimate the skill of an exceptional sound designer / audio editor. Lovely colleague too... 🙏
We're looking for a talented Senior Journalist to join the award winning team who make the likes of
#BBCNewscast
and
#Americast
You'll work with some of the best presenters in the business. Good ideas, imagination and initiative are essential.
We’ve been looking into this issue for the
@BBCAccessAll
podcast👇
@FoxNikkiFox
will cover it this week. Let us know if you’ve experienced a similar problem as
@FrankRGardner
Have recent probs at some UK airports made the issue worse?
It’s happened again. Stuck on an empty plane at Heathrow airport long after everyone else is off - ‘no staff to get my wheelchair off the plane’. I am SO disappointed with
@HeathrowAirport
as disabled passengers are once again apparently the lowest priority.
"This is one of the most talked about, yet least understood, stories of our time."
— Josh Baker, filmmaker
The Shamima Begum story unfolds in a major 10 part podcast series
Amazing BBC LONG FORM AUDIO colleagues
@joewkent
Emma Rippon &
@joshbakerstory
👏
This is what happens on the TV edition of
#BBCNewscast
We’re on
@BBCOne
every Thursday night after Question Time.
You can listen to the podcast on BBC Sounds
"Have they ended up on people's plates by now?"
The SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, spoke to
#BBCNewscast
about cost of living, party gate - and also, his lambs 🐑
Hear more on BBC Sounds
@adebradley
She engages the audience and is in the moment… Brilliant decision by our BBC
#Eurovision
colleagues. Funny, smart, looks really excited and joyful! Loved the fans chanting her name… 👏
The Reuters Digital News Report 2023 is out and its research says
#BBCNewscast
#Americast
and
#Ukrainecast
are in the top six most popular news podcasts in the UK.
Really interesting report on the opportunities and challenges in the market….
"Urgent & deeply discomfiting. But that’s the point, right? If the best journalism “comforts the afflicted & afflicts the comfortable”, then we in the latter category owe
#Ukrainecast
for bearing witness"
Does what the best journalism should: makes it real
If you’re keen to get an overview of the war then this is the right
#Ukrainecast
to listen to..
It also features extraordinary testimony from an eyewitness in Kherson
Plus
@mariannaspring
talking to the No2 at YouTube on why Russia hasn’t banned YouTube
“It is utter chaos… there is just no space to lie patients”
Dr Salwa Malik, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, and emergency medicine consultant gives us her experiences of A&E right now, on the latest
#BBCNewscast
Excited! The first episode of our brand new podcast The Global Story is out👇Our promise to listeners: to challenge breathless headlines, providing insight and fresh perspectives on the stories that matter. One subject at a time. Mon to Fri. Try us!
On Americast, Dr. Antony Fauci - a target for online conspiracy movements after advising on the pandemic - has spoken out against "low-life" trolls harassing his wife and kids, figuring out where they live.
Listen on BBC Sounds & more online.
📢
#Ukrainecast
#BBCNewscast
are in the top three most listened to podcasts on
@BBCSounds
in this record quarter. Thanks to the amazing teams who make them. No surprise that the v talented
@ggatehouse
hosts the most popular & the third most popular podcast.