Summary
A “perfect storm” of pandemic problems is continuing to devastate India. What can the rest of the world do to help? We hear from our old friend, Dr Clare Wenham, from the London School of Economics. And, in England, it looks like the past year of lockdowns has hurt children’s language skills. Adam chats to a speech therapist, a mum and a five-year-old girl called Esmé.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Danny Wittenberg, Alix Pickles and Ben Cooper. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, first today, a little kitchen update and I just wanted to tell you I cooked |
| 0:10.7 | the Sata stir-fry recipe that Tom Kerridge told us about on Friday when he was talking |
| 0:17.6 | about his new campaign with Marcus Rashford, the footballer. |
| 0:20.8 | I love satay, but I have to say I do not love peanut butter. I love peanut butter. |
| 0:24.0 | Will I love that even though it's got peanut butter in it? |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:28.0 | How do you like satay and not like peanut butter? |
| 0:30.0 | What's wrong with you? |
| 0:31.0 | That's pretty weird. |
| 0:32.0 | That's like saying, I like vanilla vanilla but I don't like vanilla ice. |
| 0:34.4 | And it was as promised by him super easy. You just put some peanut butter in a bowl |
| 0:42.0 | with some hot water and a vegetable stock cube and you got a satay sauce. |
| 0:46.0 | I did it a meat free version though so I just put extra veg in rather than chicken |
| 0:51.0 | and I'm now actually having the leftovers for a second night. |
| 0:55.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:56.0 | Here's a tasty episode of newscast for you. |
| 0:59.0 | Actually, did I make that joke last time we did something cookery related? |
| 1:02.0 | I think I probably did oh well you're |
| 1:04.4 | having seconds of my bad cooking jokes newscast from the BBC what is this |
| 1:09.9 | virus how does it spread how do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:14.4 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
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