Summary
Three is the magic number... Adam and James discuss the news that the UK's Covid-19 alert level has been reduced from four to three, which means there could be a "gradual relaxation of restrictions".
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producer: Harriet Noble Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Three years ago to this very day, the 19th of June, |
| 0:07.8 | Chris Mason sat in a studio in London in Westminster, |
| 0:12.0 | and I sat in a studio in Brussels, and we just started wanging on. |
| 0:18.0 | And thus a podcast called Brexit Cast was born. |
| 0:22.0 | Producer Dino has raided the BBC Gramophone Archive and found a clip of it. |
| 0:30.6 | And on that note about Citizens Rights, I felt one of the pieces of hard news that came out of that news conference was this idea that Theresa May is going to make her pitch about the rights of EU nationals living in the UK to her fellow EU leaders at a summit here in Brussels at the end of the week |
| 0:45.9 | and then a big document will be published in the UK on Monday. |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah, so there's movement on that, isn't it? |
| 0:50.0 | Yes, so that... |
| 0:51.0 | Yes, and I think also not just movement, but that will provide a lot of certainty for people who've been pretty worried about what's going to happen to them as a result of this process. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm not sure about how I sounded then compared to how I sound now, but if you want to hear the full evolution from Brexit cast to coronavirus newscast, the box set is available on BBC sounds, which didn't even exist when we did the first episode of Brexit cast. |
| 1:16.0 | Anyway, here is your latest edition of the coronavirus newscast. |
| 1:20.0 | The coronavirus newscast from the BBC. What is this virus? How does it |
| 1:24.9 | spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? I got some test results |
| 1:29.0 | back for coronavirus and it came back positive. |
| 1:33.0 | We're just kind of trying to feel our way into this new normal. |
| 1:36.0 | I must level with you level with the British public. |
| 1:40.0 | More families and many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time. |
| 1:45.6 | Relax, they're doing great. |
| 1:47.6 | It all will pass. |
| 1:48.8 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio with James. |
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