L'?lectioncast part deux
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
France gears up for Sunday’s presidential run-off…
In true Brexitcast style, Katya Adler updates Adam from the back of a taxi in Paris as the Macron and Le Pen campaigns draw to a close.
Also… With more details emerging around Elon Musk’s plan to buy Twitter, Vivian Schiller, a former Twitter executive, explains what the billionaire’s possible takeover could mean.
And Robin Porter, chief executive of Luton Council, tells us what makes Luton Airport Parkway an inspirational destination.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Ben Cooper, Michele Theil and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Cassie Galpin and the editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, so after the Great British Railways sale, yes, I know I'm obsessed about it, suggested I go to Luton Airport Parkway, I thought, why not make that journey virtually today? |
| 0:15.8 | And we're joined now on the journey by Robin Porter, who's Chief Executive of Luton Council, which owns Luton Airport. |
| 0:21.9 | Hi, Robin. |
| 0:22.8 | Hi, how are you doing? |
| 0:23.8 | Well, good, thanks, and so pleased that I'm virtually going to Luton for a day trip with you now. |
| 0:28.0 | What would you say is inspirational about Luton Airport Parkway, as according to the Great British Rail Sail website? |
| 0:35.8 | Well, Luton Airport Parkway is the gateway to the fifth largest and fastest growing |
| 0:41.5 | airport in the UK. |
| 0:43.0 | Last year, Luton Airport served 18 million passengers. |
| 0:46.7 | Parkway Station serves 4.2 million passengers. |
| 0:50.2 | And excitingly, the link between the train station and the airport by late summer of this year will be provided by the Luton Dart, which is an automated people mover. |
| 1:02.2 | And that'll get you from the station up to the airport in about two minutes. |
| 1:07.4 | What? Because at the moment, you have to wait for a bus and then pay like a couple of quids to get a bus ticket. And it feels a bit like, oh, I haven't really quite got to the airport yet, have I? But you're going to have this people mover. Yeah. So you have to drag your bags up, stairs and then down the stairs by the end of the summer. We're going to have proper escalators. We're going to have proper lifts, and then this smooth, |
| 1:28.6 | fantastic automated people mover take you right to the airport. Okay. This is an amazing |
| 1:34.5 | coincidence because I do love innovative novel transport mechanisms. So actually it turns |
| 1:38.5 | out Luton Airport Parkway is quite an inspired choice for me. Who knew? I'm absolutely believe it is. |
| 1:45.0 | Do you know what though? |
| 1:46.0 | We can't discuss Luton Airport without the famous advert for Campari in the 70s with Lorraine, |
| 1:51.0 | with Lorraine Chase. |
| 1:52.0 | You've probably seen this a zillion times. Let's do it one more. |
| 1:55.0 | It's very odd. I don't even know your name, but after this one Campari and soda, I feel I almost know you. May I freshen your glass? |
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