Johnson, Johnson & Johnson
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A vaccine gets paused over rare blood clots. Fergus dives into the studio (and dives out of his local indoor pool) to explain what’s going on with the Johnson & Johnson jab. And Adam chats to James May about driving tests, driving programmes and driving out Covid-19!
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Danny Wittenberg and Ben Cooper. The Studio Manager was Russell Newlove. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's day two of Step Two of lifting the lockdown in England. |
| 0:10.6 | That means that outdoor hospitality was open, gyms were open, self-contained holiday accommodation and |
| 0:17.5 | non-essential shops were open, but a lot of the focus, especially on social media, has been about going to the pop and this is how |
| 0:24.7 | it sounded in Soho in London last night. I think if this is a proper news programme we'd call that a party atmosphere just to be clear I did not |
| 0:44.0 | record that I was tucked up in bed reading a book in preparation for another episode of |
| 0:48.5 | newscast this week just to be clear but somebody who was out let's's say partying, not in Soho last night, was Bethany |
| 0:55.4 | Hello Bethany. Hello, thank you so much for having me today. Well thanks for |
| 0:59.2 | coming on, especially when I imagine you've got a bit of a maybe a sore head after what you did? |
| 1:03.6 | Well I can say that I've definitely feeling a lot better now than I was this morning. |
| 1:07.7 | Well actually we've got you a little something. little virtual Alka Salzer for you. |
| 1:17.0 | Very needed. I'm sure I will translate that into a real life one after this. |
| 1:22.0 | So you're a final year politics student and a freelance journalist at the University of Surrey. |
| 1:27.0 | How does a final year politics student at the University of Surrey celebrate day one of step two when the pubs opened. Well I scheduled all my work |
| 1:35.4 | accordingly so that I could have a lovely day off and we sat and found ourselves |
| 1:41.1 | very luckily without booking a very comfortable seat in a bar outside of course and made the most of many months without the holistic attitudes that many students do indeed take to drinking. |
| 1:54.8 | Holistic meaning a lot in this case. What was the atmosphere like in the in the pub? |
| 2:00.0 | Everyone just was incredibly happy. It felt more friendly than it might normally feel just joy from kind of everybody there that we could finally see other faces again and I think everybody felt that. |
| 2:13.0 | Now not to sound like your dad, but how much did you have to drink? |
| 2:17.7 | I enjoyed a few pints, but my housemate takes a far more 2014 freshers approach and decided that Yeagerboms were to be consumed. |
| 2:29.2 | So I hold very little responsibility. YouSeltzer I think. |
| 2:32.6 | You did drink them though? |
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