Summary
How strong is the force in the new coronavirus variants? Adam, Laura and Fergus unite to answer some of the biggest questions of the universe (like how worried should we be that Test and Trace can't seem to find a sixth person infected with the Brazilian strain of Covid-19)? And Paul Johnson, from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, tells us what we should be looking out for to seem smarter on budget day later this week.
Studio Director: Michael Regaard Producer: Alix Pickles Episode Editor: Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, the big rollout of lateral flow tests is really getting underway now. |
| 0:09.6 | Now you can actually go on the government website and if you have a primary or secondary |
| 0:14.0 | school pupil in your household you can order a whole bunch of lateral flow tests to |
| 0:18.8 | either pick up or to just be delivered to your house. |
| 0:22.8 | I just think we've been talking about these things for so long |
| 0:26.0 | and it's all been like, oh, eventually this will happen, that will happen. |
| 0:28.8 | It does really feel like they are becoming a part of our lives now and I think that's quite exciting and has also |
| 0:35.2 | been some quite exciting news today about just how effective the vaccines are now that they really are out in the real world too. So we'll discuss that on this |
| 0:44.2 | edition of Newscast. |
| 0:45.6 | Newscast. |
| 0:46.6 | Newscast. |
| 0:47.6 | Newscast from the BBC. What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect |
| 0:51.8 | ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 0:53.3 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 0:56.0 | There have been 300,000 and 34,974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:03.3 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:10.1 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:14.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:16.0 | And Lauren at a different studio. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello. |
| 1:18.0 | And Fergus in the same studio as Adam. |
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