Summary
While Westminster remains tight-lipped on how lockdown restrictions could be lifted, Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has spelled out what an exit strategy might look like there. But, emphasised it won’t happen anytime soon… Adam, Laura and Chris are joined by Scotland Editor Sarah Smith to discuss. And how can creativity help us during times of crisis? The model and activist, Adwoa Aboah, and psychologist Dr Ciara Dockery, of Gurls Talk tell us about their campaign.
Sound Engineer: William Allott Producers: Frankie Tobi, Ben Weisz, Natalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Before we begin this episode, I want to give you a little preview of what's going to be in the next episode. |
| 0:11.0 | It's going to be mostly Fergus in a top secret location, which is about to become |
| 0:15.8 | not very top secret, Fergus, because you're going to tell us where you are. |
| 0:18.6 | Yes, I am in Oxford at the Oxford Vaccine Groups Vaccination Center where the first two |
| 0:28.8 | volunteers in Europe have been immunised as part of a coronavirus vaccine trial. |
| 0:36.0 | Wow, so the first two people to have the jab that could if all goes to plan save the world. |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, I mean not putting too fine a point on it, that is true. |
| 0:49.0 | Now it is a moment of hope, but we can't oversell it. I wish I could tell you if it's going to work, or how effective it's going to be, but I can't. |
| 0:58.0 | But the fact that they've got to this point in just three months is extraordinary and we can talk much much more |
| 1:04.8 | about this tomorrow. |
| 1:05.8 | Okay and will we hear from the first person who got the jab? |
| 1:08.7 | Yes, we shall hear from that person. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm hoping that in fact she will come up and chat to us on the |
| 1:15.4 | program both the people who volunteered were scientists so they both rolled up their |
| 1:21.7 | sleeves and I'm sure we're going to hear from one of them and also from the professor leading the trial who actually immunized me 14 years ago against another pandemic threat. |
| 1:37.0 | H5N1 bird flu so we can talk about that as well. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, Fergus, you and those two have been watching history unfold with your very eyes and |
| 1:46.4 | you will hear it unfold in the next episode of the coronavirus newscast. |
| 1:50.8 | That's the next episode. |
| 1:51.8 | We'll have all the information about that, but there's |
| 1:54.2 | loads more information in today's episode of the coronavirus newscast. |
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