Summary
We’ve got ourselves a net zero plan for greenhouse gases.
Victoria Derbyshire is today’s guest presenter… She chats to Chris Stark, who advises government on climate change policy, about what Boris Johnson’s plan is for electric vehicles, houses and heat pumps.
Fergus pops in for a Covid catchup.
And we hear from the boss of Refuge, a charity providing support for women and children experiencing domestic violence, about the ways in which abusers are using technology to undermine and control people.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with producers Ben Cooper, Georgia Coan and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | So I started the day on Radio 2, standing in for Jeremy Vine this lunchtime and many, many |
| 0:10.3 | BBC listeners wanted to talk about heat pumps. I printed out some of the |
| 0:15.2 | messages there are loads of them obviously all because of the government's |
| 0:18.7 | announcement of that 5,000 pounds that subsidy for when people replace their old gas boilers with low-carbon heat pumps and |
| 0:27.4 | one man actually sent me a video of his heat pump. Have a listen sent me this on Twitter. And then someone else on |
| 0:37.4 | Twitter said, mate, you need to get an engineer around to that. We are going to talk |
| 0:41.1 | about heat pumps on this edition of Newscast with Chris and another man called |
| 0:46.0 | Chris and I can promise there'll be no hot air. |
| 0:49.0 | Newscast. |
| 0:50.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:51.6 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new new combined with contact tasting tracing for you. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatballs. |
| 1:10.0 | Next slide please. |
| 1:11.0 | Blair, Blair, Blair, Blair, Blair, |
| 1:13.0 | lose, lose. |
| 1:15.0 | Hi, it's Victoria in the studio. |
| 1:18.0 | And it's Chris in the studio at Westminster. |
| 1:20.0 | Hi Chris, how are you? |
| 1:21.0 | I'm all right, thanks, how are you? |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, good, good, good. Welcome to the pod. Thank you, |
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