Hollywood Strikes Back
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07/14/23
•33m
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Culture editor Katie Razzall joins Adam to explain why, for the first time since the 1960s, both the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America are on strike. They also speak to the actor Brian Cox.
There’s more movie news as ‘Barbenheimer’ fever takes over the red carpet. BBC Radio 1’s in-house film critic Ali Plumb is on hand to tell us what’s behind the hype.
And friends of the pod Robert Peston and Steph McGovern talk about their own new podcast ‘The Rest Is Money’.
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Today's Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming. It was made by Fiona Leach with Alex Collins and Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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