Newscast
Hosted by Adam Fleming and Adam and Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell and Chris and Chris Gray · BBC News
4.6from 2,913 ratings
- 2,319
- Episodes
- 1,085
- Transcribed
- 2,913
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About Newscast
The BBC’s daily news podcast with episodes available Monday to Sunday at 5pm. Newscast picks the brains of BBC News experts so you're ready if someone picks yours, covering the latest news, developments in politics in Westminster and beyond. Newscast is hosted by trusted politics and news journalists including Adam Fleming, BBC Political Editor Chris Mason, Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O'Connell. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. Catch Newscast seven-days a week. Watch on BBC One at 23:40 on Thursday night or later on BBC iPlayer: https://bbc.in/3VoD7vJ (https://bbc.in/3VoD7vJ). GET IN TOUCH: Send us a message or voicenote via WhatsApp to 03301239480 Email newscast@bbc.co.uk (mailto:newscast@bbc.co.uk) Or use the hashtag #BBCNewscast
- Publisher
- BBC News
- Category
- news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Feb 2017
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
1,085 of 2,319 episodes have a transcript.
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Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Chris, could you feel the sort of – I'm trying to not fall into like an American political cliche of seismic waves and things – but could you feel the effect – of the midterms where you were. Yeah, because, you know, any international summit of the kind that folk like us go to, it's a collection of political nerds. […]
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- Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty
- Jeremy Bowen
- Caitríona Perry
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- 4.5 / 5
- 394 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 2,519 ratings
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- 96
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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Adam Fleming and Adam and Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell and Chris and Chris Gray host the show. Published by BBC News.
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