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Council Culture

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Why are so many councils in England raising taxes? Adam and the BBC’s Alex Forsyth are joined by Conservative councillor David Shelvey and Labour councillor Bev Craig to look at the pressures on local councils. And Bake Off judge, Prue Leith, and her son, Conservative MP Danny Kruger, debate assisted dying ahead of a documentary they've made together. Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and was made by Tim Walklate with Cordelia Hemming, Chris Flynn and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Louisa Lewis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Hello, day two of our geography story, following the news that ordnance survey, the people that

0:09.8

make our maps are going to do a consultation later this year about what new symbols to add

0:15.2

onto them.

0:16.2

Now, Chris, my geography partner in crime is on holiday, but my other partner in crime

0:23.3

is James Gallicor.

0:25.0

Medical correspondent, hi, James.

0:26.3

No, an actual crime.

0:27.3

No, not actual.

0:28.3

Well, some people might say crime against podcasting.

0:31.2

Now the reason I've invited you back into the newscast studio to talk about a geography

0:35.0

story is because we had basically very similar emails from Kevin and E. Sussex, Anstis

0:41.4

and Brahms Grove, and Fiona and Herifiture, who all suggested a really useful new symbol

0:47.5

to have on the next generation of ordnance survey maps, would be defibrillators.

0:52.9

Interesting.

0:53.9

I kind of agree and disagree.

0:55.4

So let's pick it up.

0:57.0

Well, first of all, just remind people what a defibrillator is.

0:59.6

So defibrillator is a very important piece of medical equipment that when you enter cardiac

1:04.1

arrest, a defibrillator is something that can shock the heart, which basically hits

1:08.4

the reset button and gets it beating again.

1:11.0

So basically, it's kind of what, it's about the size of a game's console, isn't it?

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