Summary
On the day that the BBC announces an investigation into how the journalist, Martin Bashir, was rehired, Adam chats to John Whittingdale, the media minister, about the future of the organisation. And, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford explains what's going on with the detained Belarus journalist. Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Georgia Coan and Alix Pickles. 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 | Welcome back, Virgus Walsh. |
| 0:06.9 | Hi Adam, long time, no talkie. |
| 0:09.3 | It's been too long, been too long. |
| 0:11.3 | Are you an animal lover? I love animals. |
| 0:14.0 | Your cat personally. My cat died last year during lockdown, which was awful, but I'm a dog lover and a cat lover. |
| 0:20.3 | And my kids send me photos of dogs and cats repeatedly because they want me to get a dog |
| 0:26.9 | and a cat preferably several. |
| 0:28.9 | Okay well wait to meet our first guest who is Dr Claire Claire guest chief scientific officer at the |
| 0:34.0 | medical detection dogs organization. Hello Claire. Hello. Do you happen to have |
| 0:38.6 | some dogs with you right now? I do. How did you guess? I have four dogs with me I have two COVID detectors and a |
| 0:48.0 | prostate cancer detector dog and a new little doggy that's come out of rescue. |
| 0:51.8 | Okay well you've just revealed why we're chatting to you today. |
| 0:54.8 | It's the research that you've done with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, |
| 0:58.5 | which appears to demonstrate that actually, especially trained dogs could be pretty good at detecting people with COVID because to them |
| 1:06.2 | COVID has a smell. Exactly and I mean the charity medical detection dogs we've been |
| 1:11.6 | researching the odor of human disease for over 10 years now. |
| 1:16.3 | And dogs consistently seem to be able to recognize the odor of disease. |
| 1:20.8 | But this recent work has been on COVID-19 virus. Now this is the first time we've ever worked with a virus and asked the dogs to see whether there's a distinct odor that goes with it. |
| 1:31.0 | And not only if they have been able to find it, but actually they've seen to find it, |
| 1:34.9 | has a very, very unique odor. And we've been working on tiny pieces of sock, which the dogs are very reliably |
| 1:42.4 | to be identifying if the person has had COVID-9. of sock which the dogs are very reliably |
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