Summary
There’s a heat wave, have you heard?
Weatherman and iconic pandemic drummer Owain Wyn Evans and James Gallagher join Adam to give us their hot takes.
With the numbers of infections climbing and restrictions being lifted, there are calls to encourage more of the pregnant women who are hesitant about taking the vaccine to rethink and opt to get double jabbed. Dr Jo Mountfield, vice-president of the Royal College Gynaecologists, delivers the details.
This episode of Newscast was made by Emma Close with Daniel Wittenberg and Alix Pickles. The Editor is Dino Sofos.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm thinking about great encounters we've had recently. |
| 0:07.8 | England versus Germany, Kunsberg Plus Cummings, which you can see on BBC I player. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello Laura. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and here on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:18.0 | Yes, there's a special podcast version of it as well, multiple episodes. |
| 0:21.0 | I mean, what was it like sitting down with this kind of now |
| 0:25.2 | infamous person? Well, on the one hand, I was never really sure until he actually turned up that he was actually going to |
| 0:30.9 | turn on. He's that kind of guy. |
| 0:33.0 | Well, yeah, I mean he's somebody who doesn't hide from controversy and but he's also someone who, |
| 0:41.0 | you know, he's never given a TV interview before and he first of all because I only got to know |
| 0:49.0 | him a little bit during the vote leave campaign and it was after the European referendum I said oh would you do an |
| 0:53.9 | interview to talk about how you think you won and how you ran the campaign and let's |
| 0:57.8 | you know talk about how you use the 350 million and did you mislead people in |
| 1:01.6 | the stat and the other and oh by the way why do you want to blow up white hole and he sort of |
| 1:06.7 | said to me yes I promise you I'll do it one day little did I know that you know |
| 1:11.4 | five years later when he'd finally sit down to do an interview |
| 1:13.8 | everything else that would have happened between that moment so it was pretty strange from that |
| 1:18.0 | point of view but yeah I mean it was well it was fascinating because whatever you think of him |
| 1:22.2 | and let's face it for a lot of people, |
| 1:24.0 | he's a kind of bogeyman and pantomime villain, but he's somebody who was in the room during |
| 1:29.0 | lots of really important vital moments for the country, whether you're thinking about Brexit or whether you're thinking about the pandemic. |
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