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Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How bad is this going to get? Adam, Laura and Fergus are joined by Ruth Alexander from BBC Radio 4's 'More or Less' programme to take a closer look at the death toll figures and the latest forecast by the UK's tax and spending watchdog that warns the UK economy could shrink by a record 35% by June.

We also take a look at 5G conspiracy theories with our Disinformation reporter, Marianna Spring and ask Scott Bryan what we should be watching on TV.

Producers: Frankie Tobi, Harriet Noble, Ione Wells and Ben Weisz Assistant Editors: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.6

Chris, I'm going to start with the series.

0:07.6

Is there now going to be a virtual parliament?

0:10.4

There is.

0:11.6

So the speaker, uh, Lindsay Hoyle, has been doing his thing for the last few weeks, trying to make it all happen.

0:18.0

And today he has said that yet, when Parliament comes back next week,st of April on Tuesday of next week

0:24.0

they're going to do what they can to make Parliament happen virtually including

0:28.5

Prime Minister's questions now I haven't got all of the details yet and clearly

0:32.1

there's still some electronic bits of wiring to tie together.

0:36.3

But yeah, it's going to happen and you know yet another example of this virus doing something that is then or creating a situation which is unprecedented.

0:44.4

What could possibly go wrong? But even bigger news than that, your wish has been

0:50.2

granted by the Venger Boys? It has, yeah. A couple of weeks ago, it crossed my mind

0:58.0

Adam in one of those moments where your mind just wanders a little that there was a terrific song of a few years ago now by the

1:05.2

Venger Boys, everyone's favorite Dutch ensemble, called Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom.

1:10.6

And I thought for those of us are lucky enough to be able to work from home at the moment

1:15.6

That actually the reality of 2020 is

1:18.4

Zoom zoom zoom so I thought I would share that flash of creative genius with the Venga boys themselves.

1:25.9

And a few weeks later, we've got this. I'm stuck here in my room. They spend the night together.

1:34.0

This lockdown takes forever.

1:36.0

Soon, soon, soon, I want to go zoom, soon.

1:40.0

There's been the night together

1:42.0

the hour break our room. Chris, you're the Vanga Boys's muse.

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