Broadcast Prism — BBC One: BBC News — Wednesday 2 September 2026

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The Prime Minister Andy Burnham faced his first Prime Minister's Questions, clashing with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch over the economy as government borrowing costs hit a 19-year high. He blamed the previous Tory government and said the economy was turning a corner. The economics editor explained global factors including the Gulf conflict, Japan, and US tech borrowing. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, facing questions about funding and a standards investigation, called the UK a complainant society and claimed an establishment conspiracy. In the Iran war, a US strike on a wedding in Iran killed four people including two children, Iran retaliated with attacks on US targets, and President Trump proposed renaming the Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait.

A doctor linked to Lucy Letby was named after his death; Mark Deakin had been given anonymity and had exchanged messages with Letby. A week after a glacier collapse in Nepal, more than a thousand people had died and thousands were missing, with rescue efforts continuing. Four adults appeared in court charged with murdering a newborn baby found stabbed in Sheffield. The families of two Nottingham stabbing victims said police failed to tell them about a man with mental health issues fixated on the case.

Tiger Woods was banned from driving for five years and fined after pleading guilty to reckless driving. The Bayeux Tapestry returned to the UK for the first time in almost a thousand years, with the King, Queen, President Macron and the Prime Minister viewing it at the British Museum before it goes on public display.

1:31
Story begins PM hosts Macron for Downing Street talks
7:03
Story begins Nigel Farage defends failure to declare £5m gift
7:51

Charged quote Nigel Farage defends failure to declare £5m gift

Those questions about money having never gone away What on earth was the point of that by-election over the summer? Well I'm being judged guilty every single day by the media, by everybody Do you know what we'll do? We'll ask the people Actually the people in Clacton were asked to come to a judgement before they know the outcome of that investigation

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 7:51-7:55
10:06

Charged quote Nigel Farage defends failure to declare £5m gift

So I think what you're seeing is the establishment in a very coordinated way fighting back But you know something? It isn't going to work Doesn't that sound a bit conspiracy theory like? This the whole world's out to get us stuff When you read in the newspaper you're under investigation and you don't even know a complaint's been made

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 10:06-10:08
10:20

Charged quote Nigel Farage defends failure to declare £5m gift

This the whole world's out to get us stuff When you read in the newspaper you're under investigation and you don't even know a complaint's been made You can see the degree of collusion that has gone on between interested parties This will not stop, they will continually try and do this to us Who's they? It's the whole ecosystem

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 10:20-10:22
10:25

Charged quote Nigel Farage defends failure to declare £5m gift

You can see the degree of collusion that has gone on between interested parties This will not stop, they will continually try and do this to us Who's they? It's the whole ecosystem So let's name names, institutions, who's in this apparent web of collusion that you're painting? Well the House of Commons, the House of Lords

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 10:25-10:26
10:37

Charged quote Nigel Farage defends failure to declare £5m gift

So let's name names, institutions, who's in this apparent web of collusion that you're painting? Well the House of Commons, the House of Lords These are your political opponents, do you expect that? People who get appointed to all sorts of wonderful positions in the public sector This is the way that it works And you'll note that he didn't choose to name any other names

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 10:37-10:41
10:42

Charged quote Nigel Farage defends failure to declare £5m gift

Well the House of Commons, the House of Lords These are your political opponents, do you expect that? People who get appointed to all sorts of wonderful positions in the public sector This is the way that it works And you'll note that he didn't choose to name any other names And that claim of collusion is a big one without evidence

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 10:42-10:43
10:47

Charged quote Nigel Farage defends failure to declare £5m gift

This is the way that it works And you'll note that he didn't choose to name any other names And that claim of collusion is a big one without evidence But you hear there a sense of why he perceives that that is what it feels like from his perspective He also told me that he wants to be more positive and upbeat this autumn

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 10:47-10:51
11:27
Story begins US strikes Iranian oil tankers, Iran threatens retaliation
11:33

Claim US strikes Iranian oil tankers, Iran threatens retaliation

Local officials in Sirik reported four people killed and dozens injured in explosions.

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 11:33-11:39
11:33

Claim US strikes Iranian oil tankers, Iran threatens retaliation

Local officials in Sirik reported four people killed and dozens injured in explosions.

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 11:33-11:39
14:38
Story begins Doctor named as Lucy Letby's 'boyfriend' after his death
14:38

Charged quote Doctor named as Lucy Letby's 'boyfriend' after his death

So, in a dangerous stalemate with no meaningful diplomacy to speak of, further rounds of military escalation are all but guaranteed Caroline Hawley, BBC News A doctor who was referred to as the boyfriend of the child serial killer Lucy Letby has been named following his death Dr Mark Deakin, who was 53, worked as a consultant paediatrician and had been given lifelong anonymity ahead of giving evidence at Letby's trial

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 14:38-14:46
15:56

Contested quote Doctor named as Lucy Letby's 'boyfriend' after his death

during which she's been convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder a further seven Before Lucy Letby's trial, Dr Deakin applied for anonymity He told the court that she'd shown an extreme degree of obsession with him It later emerged that he'd shown her affection too The pair exchanged more than 1300 messages over Facebook, often chatting late into the night and in the early hours of the morning

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 15:56-16:00
16:22

Charged quote Doctor named as Lucy Letby's 'boyfriend' after his death

The pair exchanged more than 1300 messages over Facebook, often chatting late into the night and in the early hours of the morning This is one of the exchanges which shows how close they'd become After Letby told the doctor, she was worried He wrote, no more doubt, it's not you, it's the babies Lucy Letby replied, thanks, really appreciate you saying that I'm relieved that it's you who's been there throughout

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 16:22-16:25
16:33

Charged quote Doctor named as Lucy Letby's 'boyfriend' after his death

Lucy Letby replied, thanks, really appreciate you saying that I'm relieved that it's you who's been there throughout He replied, you are one of a few nurses across the region that I would trust with my own children In 2017, Mark Deakin had arranged for Letby to make observational visits to Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 16:33-16:39
17:42
Story begins Aid reaches survivors a week after Nepal floods
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Charged quote Aid reaches survivors a week after Nepal floods

unleashing devastated flash floods in Nepal and Tibet More than a thousand people are known to have died and almost four and a half thousand remain missing The United Nations says its response is now focused on relief and recovery rather than rescue Our correspondent Azadeh Moshiri reports now from Dunshey

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 18:02-18:07
20:29
Story begins Four charged over Sheffield baby stabbing death
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Charged quote Four charged over Sheffield baby stabbing death

Protecting the integrity of the criminal justice process is crucial to securing justice for this little girl As for the local community around where the murder took place there is obvious and understandable shock there this evening Jim Connolly, BBC News, Sheffield The families of two Nottingham University students who were stabbed to death by a man with paranoid schizophrenia

BBC One, BBC News, 2 September 2026, 21:59-22:01
22:05
Story begins Inquiry hears Nottingham attack victim could have been saved
24:05
Story begins Tiger Woods banned from driving for five years after pleading guilty to reckless driving
25:54
Story begins Bayeux Tapestry goes on display at British Museum

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