'Get Boosted Now'
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson offers third jabs for everyone over 18... What do we know about Omicron? Can the NHS cope? Could tighter restrictions be coming soon? Adam, Laura and Fergus get together for an emergency Newscast after the Prime Minister’s Sunday night TV address.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Daniel Wittenberg. The studio manager was Ash Taylor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's Sunday night, and we're bringing you an emergency episode of Newscast. |
| 0:09.7 | And I had an inkling we'd be doing this a couple of hours ago when I was at a pantomime. |
| 0:15.5 | And during the first half, my phone started buzzing away. |
| 0:18.6 | And I thought, I'll check it at the interval. |
| 0:21.4 | And I checked it at the interval, and there was a whole load of messages saying the prime |
| 0:24.3 | minister is going to do an address to the nation on TV and radio at eight o'clock. |
| 0:30.4 | And you know that when the prime minister is interrupting the schedules and going on |
| 0:33.9 | after the strictly result show, it's going to be a kind of important message. |
| 0:39.2 | And the message from the prime minister, you could sum up again in a three word slogan |
| 0:43.3 | like we've become used to. |
| 0:45.1 | Get boosted now. |
| 0:48.0 | Why is he saying that? |
| 0:49.6 | How is he going to make sure that everyone gets boosted now? |
| 0:52.6 | And what does it mean? |
| 0:53.9 | In terms of the science and the politics, we'll discuss that on this emergency edition |
| 0:58.2 | of Newscast. |
| 0:59.2 | Newscast. |
| 1:00.2 | Newscast from the BBC that will take some time before we figure out what our new normal |
| 1:05.4 | is. |
| 1:06.4 | Now, if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 1:10.1 | Combined, we contract tasting, contact tasting, tortesting, tracing food. |
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