Summary
Covid causes more travel chaos...
With Easter getaways disrupted for people up and down the country, Steffan Powell (who's sitting in for Adam on today's episode) and medical editor, Fergus Walsh, talk through the latest Covid developments. And, as the Environment Agency teams up with the makers of the video game Minecraft, Miles Jacobson, creator of the Football Manager game, explains the roles that video games can play in the real world. Today’s Newscast was made by Cordelia Hemming, Ben Cooper and Miranda Slade. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, so on Monday, the government announced its plans to privatise their broadcast |
| 0:09.7 | to Channel 4, right? |
| 0:11.4 | Now, I must have watched hundreds of hours of countdown on Channel 4 in the afternoon |
| 0:17.3 | when Amazon Union should have probably been in lectures. |
| 0:20.3 | So I thought, what better way to start this episode than by trying to explain what's |
| 0:24.6 | been going on in the time it takes a countdown contestant to get all their consonants and |
| 0:29.8 | vowels in the right place. |
| 0:32.2 | The only thing is, Channel 4, a bit too expensive, so we can't use the proper clock. |
| 0:36.4 | I've got my own sort of fake version. |
| 0:38.8 | Starting now. |
| 0:40.3 | Channel 4 is publicly owned, but not paid for, but it makes money by adverts. |
| 0:45.4 | The government wanted to change this because it says the media landscape is different |
| 0:49.0 | now, so things like Netflix, and Amazon, etc. have had a big impact and they wanted to |
| 0:52.7 | be more flexible. |
| 0:54.3 | This clock is really annoying, actually, isn't it? |
| 0:56.0 | They want to sell it to high spitter and use the money for a creative fund. |
| 0:58.8 | And lots of people are angry saying it's a travesty because Channel 4 makes lots of |
| 1:01.8 | shows out there of London. |
| 1:03.2 | Labour says it will negatively impact the creative industries. |
| 1:05.7 | A petition has started to try and stop it, but the government seems pretty adamant. |
| 1:09.9 | Oh, I'm actually out of breath after that. |
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