Summary
Lockdown restrictions are getting looser but there's nerves about the Indian variant. Millions of us can now socialise indoors (in small groups), hug loved ones (cautiously) and go inside a pub again. Our Chris Mason is in his socially-distanced booth of news to chat lockdown-politics, flights to Portugal and BINGO with Adam! Meanwhile, with more calls for a ceasefire in Israel, we hear from a former foreign affairs adviser to three British prime ministers about how the conflict could end.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Daniel Wittenberg, Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. Emma Crowe was the Studio Director and Dino Sofos is the Editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Chris, have you heard the new clips in the opening music? |
| 0:08.4 | No, not only have I not heard them, I didn't even know that there was some sort of |
| 0:12.3 | rebranding exercise going on. |
| 0:14.0 | Do you not read the emails and the many WhatsApps? |
| 0:16.0 | We've been agonizing over this for weeks and weeks and weeks. |
| 0:19.0 | Have you? I should introduce you to the mute button at some time. |
| 0:22.0 | Have you muted me? I should introduce you to the mute button at some stage. |
| 0:23.0 | Have you muted me? |
| 0:25.0 | The occasional group has a, it spends a period of time on quiet in my life, in my |
| 0:30.4 | what's-ap life. |
| 0:31.4 | Okay, you've now, you've lost the chance to be the first person to hear the |
| 0:35.3 | opening music with the new clips so I'm going to make sure that everyone else can hear it at exactly at the same time. |
| 0:40.1 | Newscast. Newsast from the BBC. |
| 0:43.0 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:47.0 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 0:51.0 | Combined with contact tasting tracing |
| 0:56.6 | tracing for you. Yes yes yes I'm a vegan so of course I don't like meatballs |
| 1:01.8 | Next slide please. |
| 1:03.0 | Blair, Blair, Blair. |
| 1:05.0 | Lose, lose, lose. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
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