Summary
An AstraZeneca vaccine trial on children gets put on pause while a possible link with rare blood clots is investigated. And former Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, talks climate change, fintech and... should Adam sell his Bitcoin?
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Danny Wittenberg and Ben Cooper. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's good to be back, and it's lovely to return to a heartwarming tale. |
| 0:10.3 | Do you remember in January we heard from Paul Bone and Sheffield who had taken his 80-something neighbor Henry through the snow for his vaccine? |
| 0:20.0 | You know, snow makes everything quite beautiful and memorable and the majority of the world's quite, you know, dark concrete and dark buildings. |
| 0:28.5 | And it just, the, it added the challenge of having to walk with an 82 year old and make sure he didn't slip up on the way there, |
| 0:39.0 | but it also was kind of made it more of a moment. |
| 0:42.8 | Well, it's been snowing again this week, |
| 0:45.2 | and Henry got his second jab. |
| 0:48.6 | And Paul got in touch to say that he was a little bit confused again and wondered why they were going to the |
| 0:54.6 | vaccination center again but it was all very well organized and one of the guys |
| 0:58.7 | marshalling the queue was one of the guys who was there the first time round which is a nice coincidence |
| 1:05.2 | and Paul's seen Henry out and about a bit more in the garden now that the weather is |
| 1:10.3 | a bit less snowy and on this episode we're going to go from the very, very local in Sheffield to the very, very global |
| 1:17.6 | because we're going to talk to the former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, |
| 1:21.8 | about solving climate change and changing the entire basis of society, |
| 1:27.0 | because that's what his new book is all about. |
| 1:30.0 | That and the latest on COVID from Fergusagas on this edition of newscast. |
| 1:33.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:36.0 | What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:40.9 | No one's got to have fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:43.7 | There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:51.0 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
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