Summary
William Shatner, aka Captain Kirk, is going into space for real. He’s swapping the Starship Enterprise for Jeff Bezos’s space travel company, Blue Origin. Fellow Canadian and astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield tells us what he can expect.
Also, the latest on gas prices and why the rise is such a problem for British steel companies. Gareth Stace of UK Steel explains what he wants the government to do.
And chilled meats are back on the menu as the UK and EU face off over Northern Ireland.
Today’s Newscast was made by Alison Gee with producers Alix Pickles and Georgia Coan. The studio manager was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I've noticed I've been getting a lot more trains lately. |
| 0:08.9 | And on Saturday I had a particularly memorable journey from Reading to London on the 1113. |
| 0:17.0 | And that's the 1113 PM service as will become very clear when you listen to the |
| 0:22.8 | surreptitious recording I made of what it was like on board. |
| 0:27.6 | A very memorable journey indeed, especially as I was trying to have a little snooze. |
| 0:40.0 | But it did make me wonder how busy is the rail network as a whole. |
| 0:44.8 | So we got the stato's to work and they found out that in the last quarter |
| 0:50.4 | the number of passenger journeys were 182 million, which is 41.6% of what they were in the first |
| 0:58.8 | quarter of 2019, so less than half the number of people. And then if you look at the revenue, so the amount of money |
| 1:06.2 | being brought in by the train companies, where we're at now is about a third of where we were at two years ago. |
| 1:14.1 | So the 1113 from Reading to London |
| 1:17.5 | was rammed packed, as Jeremy Corbyn famously once said, |
| 1:21.0 | but the network as a whole, kind of isn't. |
| 1:24.4 | Anyway, departing right now, a rampacked episode of Newscast. |
| 1:28.8 | Newscast. |
| 1:29.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:31.4 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal |
| 1:35.2 | is. Now if that is the argument then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 1:39.9 | Combined with contact tasting tracing for you. |
| 1:45.6 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:47.2 | I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatballs. |
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