Covid Inquiry: What could we learn?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How will the three year inquiry into the pandemic unfold?
Adam talks to More or Less presenter Tim Harford about how statistics influenced government decision making on the lockdown and vaccines.
BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym was in the room for the first day of public hearings and tells us how families reacted at the beginning of the long-awaited proceedings. Adam also talks to Emma Norris, the Institute for Government’s expert on public inquiries to untangle what the inquiry hopes to achieve and what she took away from day one.
Today’s episode was made by Ben Carter with Madeleine Drury, Alex Collins and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, today saw the first day of public hearings in the absolutely epic inquiry into how |
| 0:10.5 | the UK handled the COVID pandemic, although of course Scotland is having its own inquiry. |
| 0:16.2 | So we're going to focus all of today's episode on that because it's going to be talking |
| 0:21.0 | about moments that we all live through and it's also going to last for quite a long |
| 0:24.8 | time. |
| 0:25.8 | The newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:27.8 | Who got trounced by the former Prime Minister, who herself got beaten by a lettuce? |
| 0:32.2 | At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
| 0:34.2 | Green economy, lab lab lab. |
| 0:36.2 | It's the Guardian reading, tofu eating, low parratti. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm actually very right winged. |
| 0:42.0 | You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle. |
| 0:44.0 | Today I feel gay. |
| 0:46.0 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm here because I live carrying Meghan and I don't care what anybody says about me. |
| 0:52.8 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio and we're going to focus on the COVID inquiry. |
| 0:56.8 | But first of all, I have to nip out of the newscast studio across the corridor into studio, |
| 1:01.8 | what's it called? |
| 1:02.8 | S-47 to go and speak to our first well known, well informed COVID observer. |
| 1:08.8 | Tim, thank you for welcoming to the more or less studio. |
| 1:11.8 | You are very welcome in here. |
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