Summary
A big step back to normal is coming for England. People will be able to hug their loved ones and enjoy a pint INSIDE the pub from next Monday. Our Health Editor, Hugh Pym, has all the latest details. Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark joins us from Edinburgh, as the fallout from the Scottish Parliament elections continues. And Professor Ciaran Martin, who was involved in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, as a senior civil servant, helps us map out some of the SNP’s potential paths to independence.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Danny Wittenberg, Alix Pickles and Maz Ebtehaj. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, big news. |
| 0:06.6 | Hugging is back from next Monday because the Prime Minister has announced that they're |
| 0:10.8 | going to go ahead with step three of the roadmap for lifting the |
| 0:14.0 | lockdown and part of step three is the return of intimate contact as they call it |
| 0:20.9 | with close friends and family. |
| 0:23.0 | Now we've all missed the physical sensation of touching, |
| 0:26.0 | but there is a way of recreating physical sensations through sound, |
| 0:30.0 | which you may have heard of is called ASMR. You know all those videos of people |
| 0:36.5 | making little sound effects? So what we're going to try now on newscast is recreating what you can do next |
| 0:46.8 | Monday through sound and we have roped in an ASMR superstar to help us. She's from Chester and it's Sophie Michelle. |
| 0:55.6 | Hello Sophie. Hi. How are your ASMR videos going? What's your most popular one? |
| 1:01.0 | Oh my most popular one is a normal trigger video so me making |
| 1:05.7 | lots of different sounds with different objects. Okay well I thought we could maybe workshop a |
| 1:10.3 | newscast ASMR video of what going around to someone's house for a cup of tea and a hug might be like. |
| 1:15.3 | Should we give it a go? Yeah of course. So I was thinking the first thing you'd get would be the doorbell. |
| 1:21.2 | Mm-hmm. Is that doing it for you? |
| 1:25.0 | Great, that's great. |
| 1:27.0 | Then obviously you've got to have the door opening and closing. Is that giving you the tingles or not really? A bit of a loud slam that one. |
| 1:38.6 | I know these aren't quite tingly enough to get the hairs on the back of your neck going, are they? |
| 1:43.7 | How about this one? I think this is the sound of coat on coat as you hug your friend for the |
| 1:49.1 | first time in more than a year. |
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