Are Extinction Rebellion the new Suffragettes?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The climate protest group Extinction Rebellion has been causing quite a stir. Its members recently stripped almost naked in the House of Commons. They have also shut bridges, poured buckets of fake blood on the ground outside Downing Street and blockaded the BBC. For this episode we invited Extinction Rebellion’s Clare Farrell into the Beyond Today studio to find out why they think breaking the law is key to saving the planet. We also spoke to Phil Jones, who edits the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2. Phil told us about the climate change phone-in that angered the nation and a mix-up that ended with Extinction Rebellion members being hauled from the Radio 2 studio by police. Produced and mixed by Duncan Barber Additional mixing by Weidong Lin Editor: Lucy Hancock

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.2	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.8	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.7	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:15.0	Today our extinction rebellion Today, our Extinction Rebellion, the New Suffra Jets.
0:27.0	Just before Christmas, when Gatwick Airport was shut down by someone flying a drone close to the runway,
0:36.3	a BBC editor decided to produce an item on the country's most popular radio station
0:41.9	that led to armed police mistakenly storming the BBC.
0:46.2	Let him in!
0:48.2	Let him in!
0:50.2	Let him in!
0:51.2	Let him in. Let him in.
0:53.0	Let him in.
0:54.0	Phil Jones edits the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2.
0:57.0	It's a current affairs program where listeners ring in to have their say on what's going on in the news.
1:02.0	And on the 21st of December, Phil decided
1:04.6	to use the situation at Gatwick to have a wider debate about climate change.
1:09.6	I basically thought Gatwick Airport has been shut down by some guy with drones or person with
1:17.8	drones and we didn't we didn't know what and that person was being vilified and attacked left right and centre.
1:25.0	And my thought was this, and it was a bit of a flight of fancy,
1:30.0	is if this person is an environmentalist trying to get us all to actually change the way
1:40.0	we're thinking about climate change. We're told that climate change is
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