Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A Newscast travel and transport special!
Adam is joined by travel expert Simon Calder to discuss whether we’re in for a summer of disruption on the railways after the RMT union announced three days of nationwide strike action later this month.
Also, Edmund King, president of the AA, assesses how the jump in petrol prices will impact drivers.
And holidaymaker Sheila Money recounts her unexpected four-day journey from Cyprus to London after flight delays and cancellations left her and her family sleeping on the airport floor.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, there's so much happening in the travel world right now. |
| 0:08.3 | There's the disruption to flights that people have been experiencing, |
| 0:11.3 | particularly over half-term. |
| 0:13.6 | There's big news about a big increase in the cost of petrol today, |
| 0:18.7 | and we're just working out the scale of how big these rail strikes are going to be |
| 0:23.4 | towards the end of the month. |
| 0:25.1 | So this is a newscast, planes, trains, and automobile's special. |
| 0:31.8 | Newscast. |
| 0:32.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:34.5 | Nobody said to me this is an event that is against the rules. |
| 0:38.1 | Be on the back better. |
| 0:39.4 | Blah blah blah, green economy. |
| 0:41.5 | Blah blah blah. |
| 0:42.6 | I've absolutely apologized for using the word scorn. |
| 0:45.6 | Calm down. |
| 0:46.4 | Enough is enough. |
| 0:48.0 | Only enough it was tracked as I was looking at. |
| 0:50.1 | This is not the Russian people's war. |
| 0:52.6 | It's not fair, it is. |
| 0:54.2 | Oh, easy, son. |
| 0:54.9 | I am virtually out of tools to help people now. |
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