England’s Mutant Major Hurdles
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How is England clamping down on the new variant?
Professor Robin Shattock from Imperial College joins us to tell us about the new variant and how to vaccinate against it. And Sarah Smith gives us the latest lockdown news from Scotland.
Also, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is jailed. We discuss golden toilet brushes with Sarah Rainsford in Moscow. Studio Director: Russell Newlove Producers: Cristina Criddle, Georgia Coan and Jack Suddaby Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, I'm recording the start of this episode at home, doing the hoovering, because new research from the pollsters, YouGov, shows that 34% of people listen to podcasts while they're doing the household chores. So I thought I'd join you. Hang on, that's a bit |
| 0:23.5 | annoying. Also, who likes doing the chores? What else did they find out? 27% of people listen while |
| 0:29.4 | they're commuting to or from work, which seems like quite a lot for the era that we're currently |
| 0:34.5 | living in. 21% do it while cooking or baking. |
| 0:38.9 | And I'm very sorry for the 17% of you who were trying to go to sleep |
| 0:42.8 | and have just been woken up by my hoover. |
| 0:46.6 | Please try and stay awake for the rest of this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:50.3 | It's very interesting. |
| 0:51.5 | Newscast. |
| 0:52.1 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:53.8 | What is this virus? |
| 0:55.0 | How does it spread? |
| 0:56.2 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 0:58.7 | No one's got a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:01.4 | There have been 300,000, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:08.6 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:15.4 | When not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:18.5 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:20.1 | And Sarah Smith in a different studio in Glasgow. |
| 1:22.4 | Hello, Sarah. It's been a while. |
| 1:23.9 | Hiya, how are you doing? |
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