Coronavirus and holidays
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
If your holiday plans are affected by coronavirus, what are your rights? Chaos caused by the pandemic has left travellers with many questions - about insurance, refunds and whether they can get away at all. Holidaying in a pandemic isn’t easy but sometimes cancelling isn't either. Our panel of travel experts is ready to answer your Covid-related questions. Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk or tweet @moneybox
Guests: Rory Boland, Editor of Which? Travel Jill Starley-Grainger, Travel blogger from JetSet Journeys
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Sally Abrahams Editor: Hugh Levinson
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? When lies are still being told to this day, |
| 0:24.0 | who do you believe? I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.5 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. |
| 0:44.9 | It's been a summer of disruption for Britain's holidaymakers. |
| 0:53.1 | If you thought an easy way to relax after all the COVID chaos was the jet off somewhere with blue skies and sandy beaches, then you may have thought wrong. |
| 0:55.0 | Every day, the Moneybox email inbox has pinged with your travel queries on cancellations, quarantines and questions |
| 1:01.0 | about whether your money is safe. So before we go off air for our summer break, we wanted to |
| 1:05.5 | make sure we've answered some of your summer holiday questions. If you have a question for |
| 1:09.7 | our panel, email Moneybox |
| 1:11.0 | at BBC.co.com. And let's get straight to some calls. Marlina is on the phone. Marlina, hello. |
| 1:17.2 | Hi. So what's your issue? Yes. I booked before all of this happened, the chaos that we're in now. |
| 1:25.1 | I booked a flight to go, I'm from Germany, |
| 1:28.4 | to go home to Berlin for Easter, |
| 1:31.3 | and then also had two one-way flights booked for a holiday |
| 1:34.9 | to go from London to France, Berserk. |
| 1:37.7 | Both flights with Rainier. |
| 1:40.2 | And obviously Easter is now almost four months ago. |
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