Carry on Christmas
Laura chats to Adam about reports that Christmas parties were held in Downing Street at the height of last year\u2019s lockdown. \nThe BBCs Hugh Pym and Branwen Jeffreys join Adam to discuss whether festivities and school nativities will go ahead this year. \nWe hear views from the picket line as university staff go on a three-day strike over pay, working conditions and pensions. \nAdam brings you Newscast\u2019s very own \u2013 and very brief \u2013 version of Radio 4\u2019s \u2018The Reith Lectures\u2019. It\u2019s all about AI. \nAnd as advent calendars are opened, Adam invents his own version, \u2018the badvent calendar\u2019, a collection of the most cringeworthy moments of 2021. Please share yours: newscast@bbc.co.uk\nThis episode of Newscast was made by Ros Jones with Georgia Coan, Ben Cooper, Alix Pickles and Sally Abrahams. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall. The studio manager was Michael Regaard