Move over Mondeo Man
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Ford is waving farewell to its Mondeo as Adam and Business Editor Simon Jack remember the good old days. And will you be allowed in a pub without a vaccine passport? Adam and Chris chat to a pub landlord about how she's preparing. Also today, Victoria Derbyshire and producer Frankie Tobi bring us an exclusive investigation into those fleeing domestic violence being housed in unsafe refuges. Today's Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with producers Cristina Criddle, Ben Cooper and Frankie Tobi. The studio director is Emma Crowe. Emma Close was the assistant editor and Dino Sofos is the editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello. |
| 0:05.7 | It was as much a feature of driving as Tarmac, |
| 0:10.6 | motorway service stations, dads, tooting the horn just a bit unnecessarily. |
| 0:17.0 | Ford's Mondeo is no longer going to be made. |
| 0:21.0 | You need strict to protect yourself. |
| 0:25.0 | So every Mondale has a rigid steel shell and side-in pack bars. |
| 0:32.2 | And you want to be safer. |
| 0:34.0 | So every Mondale has a stealing wheel airbag, seatbelt pretentious and grabbers, |
| 0:41.0 | an anti-submarine sea. Beauty with inner strength. |
| 0:46.0 | Mondeo from Ford. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, our Mondeo man for today is business editor Simon Jack. |
| 0:53.2 | Hello. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello there. |
| 0:54.4 | Although you've got a Sierra, haven't you? |
| 0:56.0 | Do you know what? |
| 0:56.5 | I was going to make that shocking revelation |
| 0:59.0 | that I am actually, I predate Mondeo Man. |
| 1:01.9 | Because the predecessor to the Mondeo was indeed the Sierra and before that it was basically if you were kind of a rich industrialist |
| 1:09.5 | You would have a Granada and then the granada changed into the awfully named |
| 1:14.4 | Scorpio and then basically the kind of Scorpio morphed into the Sierra the |
| 1:18.4 | Sierra into the mondayo so I'm a Sierra man you know I was one of those people |
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