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Mar 2023
33m 52s

Ticket to Merseyside

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About this episode

Tickets to the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool this May sold out in 90 minutes after huge demand. Find out if Adam managed to get his hands on one.

Also, Chris Mason and the BBC's Dominic Casciani try to make sense of new legislation to try to stop people crossing the Channel on small boats.

And Tom Bateman joins us from Jerusalem to explain why hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting against judicial reforms in Israel.

Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and was made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn, Danny Wittenberg and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editor was Damon Rose.

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