Summary
People are talking about the UK's fuel queues.
Driver shortages, an energy crisis and rising inflation... But are we really heading towards a new "Winter of Discontent" (like the one in 1978)? To find out, we’ve got the BBC’s political reporter from back in the day, Nick Jones. And the killing of 28-year-old primary school teacher, Sabina Nessa, in south-east London, has reignited the conversation about women’s safety on the streets. Adam is joined by Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary Zoë Billingham, and Janey Starling, co-director of the feminist organisation, Level Up, to discuss what more needs to be done to protect women from violence. Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with producers Georgia Coan and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Emma Crowe. Sam Bonham was the assistant editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, the very fashionable thing to do at the moment |
| 0:07.8 | is to compare what's happening now with energy prices |
| 0:11.1 | and the shortages of things and the price of things going up with what was happening in 1978, |
| 0:16.8 | a period known as the winter of discontent. |
| 0:21.1 | More long petrol queues in London and the north of England as many garages run dry. |
| 0:26.0 | There have been long queues at filling stations for the third successive day. |
| 0:30.0 | In Manchester streets were relatively deserted as the city's 3,000 buses remained in their depots to conserve fuel. |
| 0:36.0 | Meanwhile the lorry driver's strike which spread today to South Wales continues to threaten food supplies and industry. |
| 0:42.0 | The dustman strike is leading to problems with... continues to threaten food supplies and industry. |
| 0:42.6 | The dustman strike is leading to problems with rubbish disposal in several areas. |
| 0:47.0 | With no buses and little petrol for motorists. |
| 0:50.0 | Should I present this podcast in this style in honor of that time? |
| 0:54.0 | No, I think not. |
| 0:56.0 | But it has got me thinking actually I don't really know that much about the winter of discontent |
| 1:00.0 | and I am as guilty as anyone of just sort of tossing the phrase around without really, really understanding it. |
| 1:05.2 | So later on in the podcast we're going to delve into actually what was happening there and just see if there actually really are any parallels. |
| 1:12.1 | And we've got someone brilliant to do it he was a |
| 1:15.1 | former BBC correspondent who was covering it at the time and specialized in labor |
| 1:18.8 | relations and we can introduce him now it's Nick Jones hello Nick. |
| 1:23.0 | Hi, hi that's a word I wouldn't have used back in the 70s but I can use it today can't I |
| 1:28.7 | Adam? Which word is that? Hi. Oh yeah of course what would you what were the BBC guidelines for how to greet correspondence? |
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