Summary
How worried should we be about the Brazilian Covid variant? Well, the government is concerned enough to ban travel to the UK from South America and Portugal. But there's some good news on immunity if you’ve had Covid, and evidence that the vaccine may also stop you passing it on to others.
And the new boss of Unison, Christina McAnea, drops in for a chat.
Studio Director: Michael Regaard Producers: Alix Pickles, Rick Kelsey Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, we thought we would combine two of the things |
| 0:07.4 | we've really got into lately. |
| 0:09.4 | One is the newscast swap shop, |
| 0:12.2 | where people have dilemmas and you help to solve them. |
| 0:15.2 | And the other was our brief flirtation with Bitcoin, |
| 0:19.5 | the cryptocurrency. |
| 0:20.8 | So let's combine the two with James from Newport. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello, James, what is your dilemma? |
| 0:27.5 | So I accidentally throw a hard drive |
| 0:30.4 | containing over 7,500 bitcoins in 2013. |
| 0:36.4 | Since then, the value of those bitcoins |
| 0:38.6 | has skyrocketed to over 210 million pounds. |
| 0:43.9 | And I've got a bit of a dilemma in getting access |
| 0:47.9 | to recover them. |
| 0:49.3 | Right, OK, I don't really know where to start with this one. |
| 0:52.3 | Where is this hard drive at the moment? |
| 0:54.2 | Where do you think it is or could be? |
| 0:56.2 | It was put into a landfill by accident |
| 0:59.2 | in the summer of 2013. |
| 1:03.8 | All right. |
| 1:04.8 | In a case of mistaken identity, |
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