Summary
Sir Geoffrey Cox MP has been working remotely from the Caribbean... Laura is in the back of a cab (again) to explain what it all means for the Government. Dr Tamsin Edwards from the pod 39 Ways To Save The Planet chats through the latest at COP26. How optimistic is she right now? And former Facebooker, Frances Haugen, stops off at Newscast (after testifying in front of the EU Parliament) as part of her European whistle-stop tour.
Today’s episode of Newscast was made by Sally Abrahams, Georgia Coan and Rosamund Jones. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The assistant editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I've been spending quite a lot of time on trains lately for cop-related reasons, |
| 0:09.4 | but that means I've had plenty of time to listen to the new ABBA album which dropped at the end of last week. |
| 0:14.6 | And I've noticed a few things about it, namely that the lyrics are quite strange. |
| 0:20.6 | For example, there's a song about the couple having a fight that starts off for the big |
| 0:25.2 | verse about their dog. |
| 0:26.5 | She jumps down and her tail is swish in like a feather right under your nose. |
| 0:40.0 | And there's a bit more nature because there's an entire song about bumblebees and whether they can cope with climate change. |
| 0:46.0 | Where all is change to pass for bumblebees to a death. And it ends with a song called Ode to Freedom, where the band is struggling with a really tricky text. So then it struck my onto freedom. |
| 1:07.0 | It would be in those that shines with me. |
| 1:12.2 | So then it struck me. These are all coded messages about COP26. Either that or I've spent too much time thinking about the climate change conference. |
| 1:22.0 | Now that's impossible. |
| 1:24.0 | Let's talk about it a bit more today on this episode of Newscast |
| 1:27.0 | and thank you for the music. |
| 1:28.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:29.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:31.0 | When Kermit the frog sang, it's not easy being green I want you to know that he was wrong |
| 1:36.2 | We can't have more clever words but not enough action build back better blah blah blah |
| 1:40.9 | Bla blah. Green economy blah blah blah we do have a deadline we've terminated problems in the past |
| 1:47.2 | I think that we can do it again I don't think they will achieve very much if we don't |
| 1:50.5 | take action the collapse of our civilizations is on the horizon. |
| 1:55.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
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