Plastic (not so) Fantastic

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A closer look at the UK’s single-use plastic problem

We dive into the UK’s use of single-use plastics. Where’s it coming from? Where’s it ending up? And what needs to change? We speak to our Science Editor, David Shukman and TV presenter Julia Bradbury, who wants us to dump the plastic… just not in Turkey.

And Boris Johnson is continuing to urge caution when it comes to the Indian variant and says the government is keeping close tabs on cases in areas like Bolton and Bedford. We speak to Professor Anthony Harnden, Deputy Chair of the JCVI about vaccine hesitancy and if we’re still on track to for the next stage of lockdown easing.

This episode of Newscast was made by Emma Close with Alix Pickles, Georgia Coan, Maz Ebtehaj, Emma Crowe and Rick Kelsey. The editor is Dino Sofos.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, there is speculation that the Labour leader Kieer Starmer is in negotiations to make
0:10.0	a fly-on-the-wall documentary about life as leader of the opposition.
0:15.1	In other words, a combination of what's really been happening in the last few weeks and
0:19.3	the think of it.
0:20.3	I take full responsibility for the results and I will take full responsibility for fixing things.
0:27.0	Let's cause a little bit of friction. Let's fire someone.
0:30.0	Let's now return to the breaking news of the last few moments that the deputy
0:35.6	leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner has been removed from her role as
0:40.3	party chair. Right, people nobody move, right, nobody move.
0:44.0	This office is now an isolation unit.
0:46.6	Do not use the phones.
0:48.1	There's a few journalists out there already.
0:50.1	Good morning, Mr Starler.
0:52.0	It's removing Angela Rayna as half a chase
0:54.0	you taking responsibility.
0:55.6	See there you are, it's a fucking feeding frenzy.
0:57.8	Don't panic or can we get sandwiches, okay?
1:00.5	Very often we've been talking to ourselves instead of to the country.
1:03.6	Well what I heard on the doorstep is he didn't know what K stamestard for.
1:07.0	People got no fucking opinion about you're like
1:08.9	special K or fucking the moody blues.
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