Summary
Adam is joined by BBC Newsnight's Nick Watt and Network Rail’s Nick King to discuss the Government’s new work placement scheme. Will it create enough long-term jobs for young people? Also, we get a local lockdown lowdown from Eleanor Roaf, Director of Public Health for Trafford.
Studio Director: Michael Regaard Producers: Ben Weisz Assistant Editors: Emma Close, Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, rural Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory |
| 0:08.7 | will be sung at the last night of the proms. Initially the BBC said there would just be |
| 0:14.6 | instrumental versions played because it wasn't safe to have people singing in the |
| 0:18.9 | Royal Albert Hall. Then there was an outcry because some people felt that the lyrics had been censored because some people find them offensive. |
| 0:27.0 | Now today the BBC has said that the lyrics will be sung by a small group of professional singers in the Royal Albert Hall. |
| 0:36.9 | We thought we'd experiment and find out what an instrumental-only version of the newscast theme |
| 0:41.3 | tune sounds like. I'm sure this will prove much less controversial. So, Hello, it's Adam speaking to you from home today rather than the studio, so it might sound a little bit different. |
| 1:19.4 | We're going to start today's podcast by getting the low down on local lockdowns because quite a few things have happened |
| 1:26.5 | in the last few days. In Scotland people in Glasgow, Western Bartonshire and East Renfrewshire, that's 800,000 people, have been told |
| 1:36.7 | they cannot go round to each other's homes because there's been a spike in infections. The Scottish government says it's keeping pubs |
| 1:45.7 | in the hospitality sector in that area open because they're not where the problem is. They say the |
| 1:50.5 | transmission has been from people going to each other's homes. |
| 1:54.7 | Then the situation's got quite complicated in Greater Manchester. They had similar |
| 1:59.2 | restrictions to the ones I just mentioned for a little while now. |
| 2:03.2 | The government's plan though was that they could be lifted in two boroughs, Bolton and |
| 2:09.0 | Traford, but local politicians said, wait, you can't do that. The cases haven't gone down enough. |
| 2:14.4 | And right at the last minute, the government changed their mind and the restrictions are still in place in Bolton and Trafford, |
| 2:21.6 | leading to a bit of confusion amongst people that lived there. |
| 2:24.8 | Luckily newscast has got one of the directors of public health in one of those |
| 2:29.8 | boroughs on speed dial because we've spoken to her before and it was brilliant and it's |
| 2:34.0 | Eleanor Roff from Trafford hello Eleanor. Hello Eleanor. |
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