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Jan 2023
33m 35s

Ken Brucecast

BBC News
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As the Radio 2 legend announces he’s hanging up his BBC boots, Adam challenges Chris Mason to Newscast’s version of ‘Popmaster’.

Chris discusses the ongoing row over Scotland's gender reforms.

And, with China facing an historic population decline, the BBC’s Jeremy and Cindy Yu from the Spectator join Adam to analyse what this could mean for the world's most populous nation.

Today’s episode was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Josh Jenkins, George Dabby, and Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Phil Bull. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.

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