Summary
The Opening Ceremony kicks off the Tokyo Olympics
Did you watch it? Martin Green CBE, the Head of Ceremonies for 2012 London Olympics joins Adam to give his verdict on Tokyo and reminisce about London. And BBC Breakfast’s Dan Walker brings us the history behind what’s made Team GB the powerhouse they are today.
Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust tells Adam about his new book and advising the government as the pandemic took hold.
And Nick Grimshaw tells us about a new series on BBC Sounds about his good friend Amy Winehouse.
Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey, with producers Maz Ebtehaj, Alix Pickles and Ben Cooper. The studio director was Mike Regaard. Emma Close is the assistant editor. Dino Sofos is the editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, the other day when we did the episode about all the restrictions lifting |
| 0:09.5 | and the fact that it was very hot, some Australian listeners got in touch to say that basically the opposite is happening in Australia. |
| 0:16.4 | And one of them was Madi Jones. Hello, Madi. |
| 0:18.7 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:19.7 | Good thanks. Well, how are you? |
| 0:20.9 | And you said it's a bit like a parallel universe? What did you mean? |
| 0:23.7 | Oh completely well it's not so bad today it's 10 degrees but on that day it was two degrees |
| 0:30.3 | in Sydney and it was very cold and I was very unhappy and we're in the |
| 0:34.4 | middle of a four-week lockdown that looks like it's not going to end anytime soon. |
| 0:37.9 | But it's still so bizarre because today our Premier stood up at a press conference and declared it's a national emergency. |
| 0:46.4 | It's all very exciting and of course we had 136 cases overnight. |
| 0:52.0 | Which is quite a lot less than we have. |
| 0:54.0 | I know I last because every day I listen to you and you say it's 50,000 cases overnight |
| 0:59.0 | it's horrific. |
| 1:00.0 | But for us this is dreadful too so. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. And hopefully we will get down to none, no cases. |
| 1:05.8 | How strict is the lockdown? |
| 1:07.2 | How tough are the rules? |
| 1:08.8 | They're not too bad, I think, but they've segregated parts of the city so that for some people you have to have a PCR test every three days |
| 1:17.0 | We don't make any real use of the |
| 1:20.9 | Antigen tests. Okay, the lateral flow ones Yeah, the lateral flow ones. |
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