Life Newscastic

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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Adam is joined by Professor Jim Al-Khalili from BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific to talk about his recent interviews with Neil Ferguson and Sarah Gilbert. And BBC Scotland Editor Sarah Smith explains the importance of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer refusing to rule out the possibility of supporting a second referendum on Scottish independence.

Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Alix Pickles, Seren Jones Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, so I've noticed the government this week
0:07.0	has been doing loads and loads of international comparisons.
0:10.7	So I thought we'd do our own set of international comparisons
0:14.0	and have a conference call
0:15.6	with some of our correspondents from around Europe.
0:18.8	Well, you know what conference calls are like?
0:20.2	Let's cross our fingers.
0:23.4	You are joining the newscast conference call.
0:28.0	Hello, is that Jean McKenzie and Brussels?
0:30.0	Hello, yes.
0:31.0	Hello.
0:32.0	Yes, I can hear you.
0:32.9	Yes, hello, Jean.
0:33.9	Fantastic.
0:34.9	So the government says lots of it's lockdown measures
0:37.3	or restrictions in England now are based on Belgium.
0:41.3	Do they look Belgian or not?
0:44.2	Well, in some ways, yes, in some ways, no.
0:46.1	So I think one thing that the UK government did take inspiration
0:49.8	from Belgium for was this idea of local lockdowns.
0:52.9	I think Belgium was one of the first countries
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