Summary
Long: The PM unveils his ‘conditional plan’ to reopen society. People who can’t work from home should return to work and a new Covid Alert System will decide how lockdown restrictions will be eased in future. But there were a lot of ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ in Boris Johnson’s speech. Adam, Laura, Chris and Fergus explain what we learnt and what we still don’t know.
Sound Engineer: William Allott Producer: Frankie Tobi Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | It's 1017 on Sunday evening. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm here. |
| 0:08.0 | Chris is there. |
| 0:09.8 | We are socially distant, but in the same building. |
| 0:11.9 | Yeah, and is, as remains do a goer, I think. |
| 0:14.0 | In different cupboards. |
| 0:15.0 | We're just waiting for Laura to join us and for somebody to phone Fergus. |
| 0:20.0 | The theme tonight is the TV event that happened in between Country File and Antiques Road |
| 0:26.4 | show. |
| 0:27.4 | That's an impressive reading of the schedule. |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, Boris Johnson's speech. |
| 0:32.3 | Prime Minister, is it time to end the lockdown? |
| 0:35.2 | No, this is not the time simply to end the lockdown this week. |
| 0:41.4 | That's it in a nutshell. Here's it in much more detail in this |
| 0:44.4 | edition of the coronavirus newscast. The coronavirus newscast from the |
| 0:48.4 | BBC. What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 0:54.0 | I got some test results back for coronavirus and it came back positive. |
| 0:59.0 | We're just kind of trying to feel our way into this new normal. |
| 1:02.0 | I must level with you, we level with the |
| 1:05.0 | British public. More families and many more families are going to lose loved |
| 1:10.0 | ones before their time. |
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