Johnson's No More Tiers
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
As Boris Johnson announces another national lockdown for England, Laura, Adam and Fergus discuss the latest measures, the impact on schools, and the new vaccine. And we hear from Dr Coralie Carle about the current pressure on NHS hospitals.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Georgia Coan, Alix Pickles Episode Editor: Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Happy New Year and it's the first newscast of 2021. |
| 0:09.6 | It was also on Radio 4 on Monday morning, the first edition of Women's Hour presented |
| 0:15.7 | by Emma Barnett as the permanent new presenter. |
| 0:20.5 | And of course, it started with her reading a telegram from the Queen. |
| 0:25.2 | So we decided to get a queen of our Owen to do one from newscast and we got one of the |
| 0:30.2 | breakout stars of the first series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello my darlings, this is Devina de Campo and you're listening to newscast. |
| 0:40.5 | I want to wish you all a fabulous 2021. |
| 0:44.2 | I know that it's going to be much better and being in the more than capable, the fabulous, |
| 0:52.7 | the incredible hands of Adam Fleming. |
| 0:55.6 | How could it be anything but? |
| 0:58.0 | Ah, thanks Devina, a queen rather than the queen. |
| 1:01.4 | And that has cheered me up on a day that's brought some quite serious news about coronavirus |
| 1:06.3 | in the UK. |
| 1:07.3 | But we thought we'd start with the uplifting stuff and then bring you the rest of the news |
| 1:11.5 | on newscast. |
| 1:12.5 | Newscast. |
| 1:13.5 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:15.0 | What is this virus? |
| 1:16.4 | How does it spread? |
| 1:17.4 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:19.9 | No one's got to have fucking clue what Brexit is. |
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