Summary
Gyms, beauty salons and outdoor pools are able to open from as early as this weekend in England. Adam, Laura and Fergus look at the small print. And as the government announces that plays and gigs can start happening outdoors again, the comedian Russell Kane tells us he's worried about the future of live comedy. Producers: Frankie Tobi, Seren Jones, Natalie Ktena Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | News today that outdoor live performances can start again in England from Monday. |
| 0:12.3 | This is very exciting. Yeah. What kinds? Well I think I don't think there's |
| 0:16.7 | like a limit on the genre. I think it could be anything and it could in in theory be I don't know, an outdoor comedy gig. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh, do you know anyone who does them? |
| 0:26.0 | Perhaps, I don't know. Russell Kane? |
| 0:28.0 | Hi Russell. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, how you doing? |
| 0:30.0 | Can you picture yourself doing an outdoor comedy gig? I've done loads of them absolutely loads |
| 0:34.9 | over the years at festivals underneath it depends what you do how you're defining |
| 0:39.6 | outdoor would it be like a loose marquee but the sides are open but I've done completely |
| 0:43.8 | outdoor as well but you're at the mercy of the weather then what do you think |
| 0:46.9 | will be the first gag that you tell when you can go and do a gig whether it's |
| 0:51.1 | outdoor or indoors again. |
| 0:52.8 | Well I probably will unleash a hundred mile an hour torrent of Verbal AK spray |
| 0:57.1 | about Boris Johnson's handling of COVID-19, but for the purposes of this sound bite, |
| 1:02.4 | I will probably go go why did the comedian |
| 1:04.2 | walk into the bar he didn't there was someone playing a trumpet inside and the |
| 1:08.0 | place was evacuated that's actually not a joke that's a true piece of guidance I think from the government website actually. |
| 1:15.0 | It's the annoying because at the end of each of my jokes I like going, |
| 1:18.0 | ewhoo with a trombone, which I legally now cannot do. |
| 1:22.0 | And if you're asking asking can we joke about COVID-19 that is the very point where we need to get comedy back up on its feet because I've got I'm lucky to very old relatives I've got relatives that aren't very well I've |
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