Floods, Extinction Rebellion and Carbon Emissions

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4 • 741 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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With more rain forecast in the worst flood hit areas of the UK Mike talks to Chief Executive at the Royal Meteorological Society, Liz Bentley. Kwasi Kwarteng, Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth presents a new drive to reduce carbon emissions. And.. Extinction Rebellion are up to no good again..

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0:00.0	Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, Talk Radio.
0:08.0	Talk Radio Breakfast with Mike Graham, in for Julia Hartley Brewer and The Times. Be well-informed.
0:16.7	Good morning, it's Tuesday, the 18th of February. You're listening to Breakfast with Mike Graham, standing in for Julie Hartley Brewer on Talk Radio. Coming up, dozens of people have spent the night away from home as severe flood warnings remain in place across parts of the UK. One woman died after being swept away in floodwater in Worcestershire, while hundreds of homes have been flooded in extreme weather caused by Storm Dennis. Lots of people suggesting that Boris Johnson should be out and about
0:38.9	making sure that everybody knows that he's in charge and that he's doing something.
0:42.9	I'm not sure that's necessary, but by all means, let us know what you think.
0:46.1	0344-49-1,000.
0:48.6	You can tweet us as well at Talk Radio.
0:50.5	Also, in the next 15 minutes, I'll speak to a talent agent who knew Caroline Flack, as it has now emerged that she told police she would take her own life following allegations she assaulted her boyfriend in December.
1:00.9	She was apparently very worried about some body cam footage that the police had of the incident in question.
1:06.8	And yesterday, Extinction Rebellion dug up the lawn at Trinity College in Cambridge. It was an act of vandalism, nothing more, and it has not gone down well with anyone.
1:14.1	The police just let them get on with it.
1:15.4	I'll speak in the next hour as well to the Minister for Business Energy and Clean Growth, Quasi Quito.
1:20.0	I'll ask him, what on earth he thinks Extinction Rebellion are up to.
1:23.3	Plus, I'll be joined later in the show by legendary music producer Steve Lilly White, ahead of the Brit Awards Tonight, which themselves admired in some kind of controversy.
1:31.4	It's six minutes past seven. You're listening to me, Mike Graham, right here on Talk Radio.
1:36.1	Talk Radio Breakfast with Mike Graham.
1:38.9	In for Julia Hartley Brewer and The Times.
1:42.3	Know your times.
1:43.7	I'm in the company of Steve and Alan,
1:45.2	comedian from The Mash Report,
1:46.1	and Emma Webb,
1:46.8	director of the formal integration, democracy and extremism at Civitas.
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