4.8 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.7 | Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast of Ellis James and John Robbins on BBC Radio 5 Live. |
0:10.6 | Good show today, recorded during a heat wave, a 24 hour heat wave here in London and in |
0:16.3 | the surrounds. |
0:17.8 | And as I was walking in, it's something that I think is unique to London because I've |
0:22.5 | never, it's maybe that I've just never been in another city during this kind of temperature. |
0:27.7 | But you get like streams of hot air in the streets, like because it's all streets for such |
0:36.4 | a long way and all the buildings are reflecting heat down. |
0:40.3 | So it's like every street you get this sort of blast of hot air like you're walking into |
0:44.6 | a WH Smiths at Christmas. |
0:46.1 | Yeah, it would be so different if you were in rural Cornwall. |
0:51.0 | Well, also I would say in New York because it's a modern city, the streets are wider. |
0:56.3 | So the air doesn't get trapped as much. |
0:59.0 | Whereas because the streets in London are designed for sort of horse and carts is horses and |
1:04.4 | carts. |
1:05.4 | Horse and carts is definitely not that. |
1:10.2 | Horse and cart. |
1:11.7 | Horse and cartages? |
1:13.0 | Yeah. |
1:14.0 | They're very thin. |
1:15.0 | Horse mobiles? |
1:16.0 | Horse mobiles, which is also quite so bad for pollution because it traps pollution in |
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