Greece's Wildfire Tragedy
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Wildfires on several Greek islands have left many Brits worrying about how to get home, including BBC sports journalist Warren Muggleton, who was on holiday in Rhodes. He joins Adam and the BBC’s Azadeh Moshiri from Rhodes airport to discuss the impact of the fires on residents and tourists.
And Katya Adler is in Madrid unpacking Spain’s election results and reflecting on what they say about extreme politics in Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, thank you for listening to our by-election episode, which, if you've not heard, |
| 0:08.5 | it's still available on BBC Sounds and also as a TV spectacular in full colour chaos on BBC |
| 0:15.0 | iPlayer if you want to look at us. You might have noticed over the weekend, Rishi Sunak, |
| 0:20.0 | celebrated holding on to the Uxbridge constituency formally held by Boris Johnson and retained |
| 0:25.0 | by the Tories by going to see Barbie at the cinema with his wife and his two children, |
| 0:30.1 | much like the rest of the nation, although most of us did not go to the cinema with the Prime Minister. |
| 0:34.8 | Now, we thought we'd do a little survey of our leading politicians and find out what they thought |
| 0:39.1 | about Barbie or whether they're more open-hymour people. So we checked with the Prime Minister's |
| 0:43.8 | official spokesperson at the lobby briefing for Westminster journalists at lunchtime today. |
| 0:48.0 | They said the Prime Minister hadn't yet given a review to his team, but they thought one would be |
| 0:53.1 | forthcoming fairly soon. Then we checked in with the Lib Dems and they say Sir Ed Davy, |
| 0:57.6 | their leader, hadn't seen Barbie or open-hymour yet, but they said he is definitely team Barbie |
| 1:03.7 | because when he does take his daughter to the cinema, which he loves doing, she will have a |
| 1:08.4 | preference for Barbie over open-hymour. And we asked Labour about what curious |
| 1:13.3 | Starmer's viewing habits were over the weekend and as of the time of recording of this episode |
| 1:17.6 | of newscasts, twitches, Monday, late afternoon, they haven't got back to us. So if there's any |
| 1:23.0 | breaking news about whether a curious Starmer is a Barbie fan or an open-hymour fan, we of course |
| 1:28.5 | will bring it to you and will bring you lots of other news on this episode of newscasts. |
| 1:33.0 | Newscasts. Newscasts from the BBC. |
| 1:35.6 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a letter. |
| 1:40.0 | At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
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