Summary
Large backlogs in criminal courts means some crimes from last year, will not go before a jury until 2022. Barrister Alexandra Wilson drops in, to tell us she’s frustrated to see some courts being used to film dramas, rather than hear real cases, that are piling up because of the pandemic.
And we ask: how do you make smart motorways smarter?
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Alix Pickles, Georgia Coen Episode Editor: Rick Kelsey Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | It's Emily Meatless from AmeriCast here, |
| 0:11.6 | and it also happens to be Joe Biden's inauguration this |
| 0:14.6 | week I thought you might like me in Washington Soaps. It's been unbearable without |
| 0:20.1 | you really no really. We'll be recording a bumper episode of America |
| 0:25.1 | asked after Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States and |
| 0:30.1 | if you're thinking gosh I wonder how they got there and where it all began. |
| 0:36.1 | Luckily you can hear us on the previous episodes. |
| 0:39.5 | You can hear what we got right a bit, what we got wrong, |
| 0:44.3 | we got wrong, quite a lot. |
| 0:46.0 | Subscribe to America now on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello, you must surely remember a couple of days ago when we spoke to James from Newport about his |
| 0:56.6 | Bitcoin related dilemma. |
| 0:59.7 | So I accidentally threw away a hard drive containing over 7,500 |
| 1:05.3 | bit coins in 2013. Since then the value of those |
| 1:10.0 | bit coins has skyrocketed to over 210 million pounds. |
| 1:16.0 | And I've got a bit of a dilemma |
| 1:18.3 | in getting access to recover them. |
| 1:21.2 | And I'm sure James will be very pleased to hear that lots of you got in touch with your ideas. |
| 1:25.9 | Ian said, don't just offer to reinstate the landfill, offer to improve the condition so it can be used for some good purpose like housing or a nature reserve |
| 1:34.9 | an offer to pay for all the work the council will have to do to make this happen. |
| 1:38.8 | Sally, who is a councillor, says local councils have a financial challenge when accepting cash gifts. |
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