Jane Garvey and Greg James

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Fortunately for Newscast, Jane Garvey’s in the hotseat. James and Laura discuss the prime minister’s first year in office, England’s first day of compulsory mask wearing in shops, and whether anti-vaxers pose a threat to Covid recovery. Plus Greg James is on hand to bid Coronavirus a firm “up yours!”

Studio Director: Michael Regaard Producers: Ben Weiz, Frankie Tobi and Nathalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hi, this is Jane Garvey.
0:06.0	Welcome to Newscast.
0:07.2	It's my first ever Newscast podcast.
0:09.7	It's one of my favorite pods, so I'm delighted to be here and I'm hoping really hoping
0:14.0	fingers crossed to interview some real heavyweights so let's just have a look
0:18.0	who have they lined up for me.
0:25.0	Radio 1 Breakfast presenter, Greg James. Craig, James.
0:26.0	Craig, why?
0:28.0	Why are you here?
0:29.0	This is supposed to be my big return to news after it's over a decade in the factual wilderness so I was hoping for
0:36.0	something else but it's you well I love you too Jane you know that yeah you know
0:41.9	that I say that often and and yet still I am mocked forever by you.
0:48.2	That's fine. There's worse people to be mocked by isn't there?
0:50.7	Yes and I'm sure they also mock you by the way. But you know I'm
0:54.9	delighted you're here because up yours Corona is your latest valiant attempt to try to
0:59.8	take our minds off the hell that is planet Earth right now. Maybe first of all tell us
1:04.3	about what up yours corona is. Well it actually started with a listener called
1:08.1	Esther who just called up and we were just having a chat and she was like everyone really just really over it and has had lots of sadness and her job has been
1:17.2	Decimated her husband lost her job and she's had illness in some of her family members and stuff. So it was just feeling fed up like everyone and we encouraged her just to let it all out.
1:27.3	We said without swearing what would you say? And then we talked about it a little bit and she's like well something like you know
1:34.7	up up yours Corona and then it stuck and then loads of listens were like oh come
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