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Feb 2022
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Newscast talks policing culture with the Culture Editor, Katie Razzall, who's sitting in for Adam. She chats to the BBC's Tom Symonds about what's happened since Dame Cressida Dick resigned.

We hear from Rufus Norris (at the National Theatre) and Erica Whyman (at the Royal Shakespeare Company) about what the industry has been through over the last few years, as well as their hopes for the future.

Louis Theroux is back to talk about his new doc series.

And Gogglebox's Scarlett Moffatt makes an appearance too!

This episode of Newscast was made by John Murphy, Georgia Coan, Ben Cooper and Danny Wittenberg. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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