Coronavirus: Your travel queries answered
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In recent weeks the Money Box inbox has been inundated with your queries and questions about travel and holiday issues. So we invited Simon Calder, travel editor at The Independent, to shed some light on some of the most common problems people are facing.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello and welcome to this special Moneybox podcast. I'm Ben Carter and I was the reporter on the program last Saturday. |
| 0:39.7 | And our listener inbox was and continues to be flooded with your questions relating to holiday and general travel woes as a result of the coronavirus crisis. |
| 0:51.5 | And who better to answer some of these queries than Simon Calder, the travel editor of |
| 0:55.9 | the Independent. Simon, welcome. Thank you. Rather, the can't travel anywhere, editor of the |
| 1:02.0 | independent, but yes, unprecedented times, of course, and also one of huge anxiety. I've never |
| 1:09.8 | known such grief, such anguish, such confusion among travellers |
| 1:14.4 | and of course the many, many good people who work in the travel industry, which if you go back |
| 1:21.4 | to the start of the year, was expecting a record 2020, sending more people to more places, |
| 1:30.0 | delivering better experiences, better value more safely than ever before. And now, sadly, the whole travel industry is rather |
| 1:34.8 | on life support. The sheer volume of emails that we've had in, and we've had hundreds and |
| 1:40.4 | hundreds, it's almost been unprecedented in our inbox. And we're going to try and cover, |
| 1:45.3 | well, we will cover some specific questions that we've had in. But we're going to start off with |
| 1:49.6 | some more broad questions, which hopefully, and your answers, I'm sure, will help a lot of people |
| 1:54.6 | who we can't answer directly. Flights are still coming in and going out of the UK, which has surprised some people. |
| 2:02.8 | Who are they transporting? |
| 2:04.0 | A really good question to start off with. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

