Summary
The Great British Gold Rush!
As Team GB pick up three gold medals on a ‘Magic Monday’, Rachel Burden from 5Live’s Olympic Breakfast gives Adam the lowdown on what’s been happening over in Tokyo.
Plus with new COVID cases falling for the sixth day in a row, James is here to assess whether the UK is past the peak of the third wave.
And following yet more extreme weather – this time resulting in flooding across the south, Adam is joined by engineer Stephen O’Malley to find out what can be done to mitigate the effects of extreme weather on our cities.
Today’s Newscast was made by Emma Close, with Ben Cooper, Georgia Coan and Maz Ebtehaj. The studio director was Ash Taylor. Dino Sofos is the editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello and joining me is Rachel Burden from Olympic Breakfast on Five Live. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello! |
| 0:10.6 | It's so nice to talk to you again. |
| 0:11.8 | And yet again, I'm not kind of doing my normal thing I'm out well I'm not out and about but I have a slightly different |
| 0:17.5 | Sporty hat on last time I spoke to you we were in the thick of the euros right and now we're in the thick of the Olympics. The sport just |
| 0:24.0 | keeps on coming which is good but before we dive in another little pun I just |
| 0:28.5 | thought I should explain to newscasters why our Olympics coverage is a bit |
| 0:32.4 | budget it's not because that's just that's the Why are a Olympics coverage is a bit budget? |
| 0:33.0 | It's not because that's just that's the house style. |
| 0:36.0 | It's that the rights issues are quite legion |
| 0:40.0 | and the rights are quite sewn up and so humble podcasts like this which are listened to internationally, which is good, |
| 0:48.0 | can't play any Olympics coverage, not even the commentary from Five Live, so that's why you're going to do everything. |
| 0:55.0 | Your podcast may be budget, can I tell you, but our programme, a link at breakfast, is far from budget. |
| 1:01.0 | It is gold standard all the way the amazing thing about listening to us in the |
| 1:06.6 | morning if you want to is that we can get everywhere to every event bring it all to you |
| 1:11.8 | live every single moment. |
| 1:13.6 | So as you can imagine, I mean it's been brilliant from the start, but today it sort of went nuts. |
| 1:19.2 | Well, so I'm going to use you as like, you know those artist's impressions you get from courts |
| 1:23.7 | you're going to be like the equivalent of that for the Olympics for us. |
| 1:26.5 | That was like a really rubbish version of what actually happened. |
| 1:30.0 | So I suppose the first the first thing in the gold rush was Adam P. T. |
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