Summary
The UK's coronavirus alert level is being upgraded from 3 to 4. Adam, Laura, Chris and Fergus talk through what it means for the country. And Teesside University student radio station, TUXtra, stages a Newscast takeover. What will Freshers' Week be like for students?
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Sej Asar, Natalie Ktena Output Editor: Frankie Tobi Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, let's start with a quick update on something we were talking about in the last episode. |
| 0:10.3 | Do you remember, we recorded it on Friday afternoon and we spoke to Paul Pringle who owns a few bars in Newcastle and it was a couple of hours before he was going to have to close them all at 10 p.m. as part of the new restrictions |
| 0:24.8 | in large parts of the northeast of England. Well, how did it go? Friday night was very easy because |
| 0:30.5 | there wasn't very many people in to throw out. Not many people about at all. |
| 0:34.6 | And how about Saturday? Saturday was slightly better, but it's sort of 45, 50% down on a normal |
| 0:42.2 | week, that's for sure. and how about kicking out at the |
| 0:45.1 | earlier hour of town on Saturday so the staff just ordered people out and it was |
| 0:50.2 | everybody was out by I thing about five plus ten. |
| 0:52.6 | Oh, so I mean that tells you something good about human nature, doesn't it? |
| 0:56.4 | In that when people are told you've got to do something and it's for public health reasons, |
| 1:01.4 | you might think, oh, there'd be a bit of aggression but actually |
| 1:04.2 | people just accepted it. People do behave themselves and they do do what they |
| 1:09.9 | asked to do when they're in pubs and restaurants and bars and that's why I think |
| 1:13.7 | the infection rated down in those places but the government seems to think otherwise |
| 1:18.3 | all the time. Is the subtext of what you're saying though that actually people |
| 1:21.9 | should be trusted and |
| 1:23.2 | venues should be trusted to stay open past 10 o'clock. |
| 1:26.2 | Listen even if it was 12 midnight, 12 midnight, you know, there's a lot of people had |
| 1:30.6 | the night out by then and they'll just naturally filter off home. |
| 1:34.3 | Whereas 10 o'clock, it's just that time where it's sort of, especially in the day and age that we live in now, |
| 1:39.1 | where the youngsters prefer to come out later. |
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