New Year, New Covid Sub-Variant

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How worried should we be about the spread of coronavirus abroad? Restrictions are about to ease in China and there’s a new strain of Coronavirus in the USA. James Gallagher, presenter of Radio 4’s Inside Health and Kerry Allen, the BBC’s China media analyst put Covid back on the agenda. How to Fail podcast presenter Elizabeth Day also joins Adam to talk about New Year’s resolutions, and Radio 4’s Just One Thing host Dr Michael Mosley shares his top tips for sticking with them. Today’s episode was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Rufus Gray, Danny Wittenberg, Miranda Slade and Madeleine Drury. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.1	Hello, our newscast Sound of 2023 where you tell us the noise that you think will dominate
0:11.1	your year or symbolise your year has already gone global.
0:15.4	In its first day, we've had an email from newscaster Tom in Indiana in the USA, he says,
0:22.0	and this does require a small piece of translation which I will do in real time.
0:26.1	The Sound of 2023 for me says Tom is going to be the sound of my car rumbling down the
0:30.8	road.
0:31.8	Now that gas prices, that's petrol to us Brits, have really dropped here in America.
0:36.6	I'm planning on travelling to some national parks with my friends and exploring new parts
0:41.0	of America this spring and summer.
0:43.2	If Covid has taught me anything, it's don't wait to do something.
0:46.8	Do it now.
0:47.8	And then he says in brackets, I'm feeling for all of you dealing with the high energy costs
0:52.6	in Britain.
0:53.6	You guys can get relief soon.
0:56.1	Well, Tom, thanks very much for your email.
0:58.3	Good luck on your travels and here is the sound of a car hitting the road, possibly heading
1:04.5	to a US national park, Tom's Sound of 2023.
1:11.8	Very inspiring, although I'm still sticking with the Eurovision anthem and here is the
1:25.4	newscast anthem to kick off this episode.
1:28.4	Newscast.
1:29.4	Newscast from the BBC.
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