Summary
We’re just a podcast, sitting in front of Richard Curtis, asking him some questions. The rom-com hitmaker – famous for Four Weddings, Notting Hill and Love Actually – joins us to talk about the environment and why your choice of pension matters for the planet.
The world is gathering in Glasgow this weekend to discuss climate change. Laura checks in from the airport as she boards the PM’s plane to Rome, where the G20 leaders’ summit is taking place first.
And with the government looking at cracking down on so-called ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ companies, Adam speaks to the CEO and co-founder of Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski.
Today’s Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg with producers Ben Cooper, Maz Ebtehaj, Georgia Coan and Sam Bonham. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | On today's podcast, we're joined from Los Angeles by Richard Curtis. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey, very good to talk to you. |
| 0:13.2 | This is the world's best podcast. |
| 0:15.2 | Oh, really? |
| 0:16.2 | Well, you're the maker of some of the world's best films. |
| 0:18.9 | That's amazing to hear. |
| 0:19.9 | I don't know about that. |
| 0:21.8 | Can I make a small confession that when international travel opened up again and we saw |
| 0:25.8 | lots of heart-wrenching, heart-tugging scenes at airports, I actually did my own version of the Hugh Grant |
| 0:32.0 | love actually the airport scene. |
| 0:33.7 | I bet you were less grumpy than he was when you were recording it. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, why don't we play it to you and you could give me your verdict? |
| 0:40.5 | Okay. Thanks. |
| 0:50.0 | Whenever I get gloomy, I think of the Arrivals Gate at Heathrow Airport. Father's mothers, brothers, sisters, boyfriends, girlfriends, cousins, uncles, aunts, all arriving |
| 0:57.8 | on Monday from 4 a.m. from the United States and most of Europe where they've been double |
| 1:02.3 | jabbed, coming to the UK and not |
| 1:04.8 | having to quarantine. |
| 1:08.0 | Love actually is all around. It was excellent. I mean I don't know how many takes it took you but it took |
| 1:17.6 | Hugh about 25 so I was up to |
| 1:25.0 | up to scratch I'd be making climate actually because climate actually |
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