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Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Amazon, Love and Spain

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4741 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

George Pascoe Watson, from Portland Communications, talks about the second wave starting in Europe. Teresa Wickham speaks about Amazon's free deliveries. Neil Oliver joins Mike to talk about love, and Lisa Francesca Nand is live from Spain.

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0:00.0

Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, on Talk Radio.

0:13.5

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on talk of radio.

0:21.8

So here we are then smack bang in the middle of the week, waiting for some pearls of wisdom to fall from the lips of those who are charged with getting us all out of this COVID-inspired mess.

0:30.9

And there's a fair chance that by the weekend we will have them.

0:33.9

The pearls of wisdom, I mean, not getting out of the mess. Imagine the scenes in Downey Street this morning as the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his chief advisor Dominic Cummings, and the

0:41.5

country's chief medical officer Chris Whitty all sit around the table arguing about what to do next.

0:46.4

I've been thinking about this quite a lot this morning and I'm trying to imagine a room

0:50.1

full of people taking life very seriously, but not actually really knowing whether to

0:55.2

agree about anything. The newspapers have a variety of choices for them, a reduction in the time

0:59.7

we may have to quarantine if returning to the UK from a holiday in an unsafe country, a lifting

1:04.8

of the restrictions to the Ballyarix and the Canary Islands for hundreds of thousands of British

1:09.5

holiday makers, the introduction

1:11.1

of testing at airports for people coming home and growing concerns about a second wave of

1:15.8

the virus sweeping across Europe.

1:17.4

Whitty, of course, will be urging caution because that's all he ever does. After all, it was

1:21.4

his idea to make people coming back from Spain self-isolate for a fortnight because 10 people

1:26.4

tested positive last week.

1:28.1

Boris will be trying to convince him to relax the rules a bit more so people can spend more money

1:32.0

to help revive the economy. Dominic Cummings, of course, will simply be sitting there trying

1:36.9

to work out which journalist he doesn't want to speak to this week. This could take some time.

1:40.8

0344-49-1,000. We need to hear from you all today on whether you've had to cancel your plans,

1:45.9

what your airlines and hotels are telling you to do,

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