i also added a programme called newscast which was called brexitcast and we took at the television andlly, responded well watching correspondents they see on the 10pm news or hear on the today programme every day being just informal, undoing their top button, kicking off their shoes and just talking in a kind of normal and informal way they would talk to their friends down the pub and i think that's a really great format and a great way to convey information and to get into the nitty—gritty, the story, without using too much jargon. it's a really intimate format. when you listen to a podcast, it is notjust like putting the radio on and you listen to whatever is on at that time. you are specifically choosing to click on something on the bbc sounds app and spent half an hour with that presenter or group of presenters listening to a specific story or a specific episode of a podcast. and that gives us i think a real privilege. we know we are kind of talking into your ears while you are on the train or on your car stereo or some of are on the train or on your car stereo oi’ some of oui’ are

so welcome to a little bit of brexitcast, this week's newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc.ura this week at westminster. and it's chris, glad to be back at westminster, sitting in for adam, who's away. so, there has been, this week, number one, lots of confusion about all the changing rules. but number two, a real expansion in the numbers of people who are living under tighter restrictions now. a quarter of the population is now living under tighter rules. huge brew ha—ha in westminster about that this week. the government having to manage backbench discontent. it's felt quite angsty at some times, hasn't it? yeah, angsty and, i guess inevitably, bitty because the government has said, hasn't it, repeatedly, it doesn't want to institute, unless it has to, any kind of national whatever you want to call it, short of a lockdown or even a lockdown if things were to get that grim. but i suppose the inevitable reality of that is this patchwork of different measures that vary by geography and then seem to change every moment. someone was saying to me the other day that you know, the

i also added a programme called newscast which was called brexitcast and we took at the television andion and to get into the nitty—gritty of the story, without using too much jargon. it's a really intimate format. when you listen to a podcast, it's notjust like putting the radio on and you listen to whatever is on at that time. you're specifically choosing to click on something on the bbc sounds app and spent half an hour with that presenter or group of presenters listening to a specific story or a specific episode of a podcast. and that gives us, i think, that's a real privilege. we know we are kind of talking into your ears while you are on the train or on your car stereo or some of our listeners say they listen to us as they are nodding off to sleep. it's really intimate and allows us to have a conversation with the audience. the coronavirus podcast from the bbc... again, during the pandemic, we have had so many people come to us with stories, it is a great way of generating content, so i feel like we've created a real community, that is what podcasting allows you to do. and the ot