Summary
When Adam met… one of his heroes he talked to him about life in lockdown, good interview techniques and how to make a hit podcast!
As well as Louis Theroux, in this episode Adam is chatting to Fergus about the latest Covid news (there’s lots today) and also the BBC’s Gordon Corera, who explains what happened at the Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion on Sunday.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Alix Pickles and Sally Abrahams. The studio director was Ash Taylor and the assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, I'm back in the studio. |
| 0:06.5 | Back from Glasgow via the most |
| 0:09.2 | RAM-packed train you can imagine. |
| 0:12.0 | There were so many suitcases, and I'm sure they were all |
| 0:14.7 | packed full of the legal documents from COP26 which has now been all approved and I |
| 0:19.3 | realize that in the drama and excitement of Saturday night and the late finish we didn't bring you the |
| 0:24.4 | actual moment when Al-Och Sharma, cop president brought down the gavel, posh word for hammer, on the actual |
| 0:31.3 | deal done in Glasgow. |
| 0:33.3 | Hearing no objections it is so decided. |
| 0:35.8 | Well that sounded particularly historic, didn't it? |
| 0:45.0 | But we've been asking you throughout COP about whether it's actually made a difference to you, |
| 0:50.0 | just hearing all this stuff and thinking about it and some newscasters are going to do things |
| 0:55.2 | differently from now on. |
| 0:58.8 | In response to your question on climate change, I am making a conscious effort to cut down on meat, especially red meat, but I've found that I'm much better at changing my choices to help the climate when companies or services give me that extra incentive to do so. |
| 1:11.0 | I've been changing my behavior post-cop especially |
| 1:14.8 | using the packaging free shop for topping up baking ingredients, oil, sugar and the |
| 1:20.8 | like. So no more non-recyclable plastic wrappers. |
| 1:25.0 | I've gone from being a self-employed Pilates teacher to applying for and being offered a job in a conservation |
| 1:32.0 | environmental office. |
| 1:33.3 | The recent news coverage of COP26 and the climate emergency has stimulated me to look into getting |
| 1:40.6 | a heat pump to replace the ancient gas boiler in my house. I phoned the |
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