‘Professor Lockdown’ Steps Down

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Professor Neil Ferguson’s advice played a big part in the government imposed lockdown. But he’s now quit after the Daily Telegraph reported he allowed a woman to visit his home.

Also, as Scotland considers introducing social bubbles, the stars of the TikTok house tell us what it’s like to live in one. And football legend, John Barnes and Radio 1 legend, Chris Stark, on when the football season should return.

Sound Engineer: Emma Crowe Producers: Harriet Noble, Nick Rotheram, Ben Weisz and Natalie Ktena Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Never has the Isle of White been in the center of the news so much.
0:09.2	Yesterday we heard that they are going to trial the new NHS coronavirus app this week and we
0:15.7	chatted to former Olympian and Isle of White-born Kelly Sutherland and she
0:21.9	said this fairly tongue-in-cheek statement. I mean there's 140-a-thousand people live there.
0:26.0	I mean I've got 100 of a thousand of them are old.
0:29.0	No, that prompted quite a reaction amongst the coke heads as we must call them and one of them is 21 year old and I'll say that again 21 year old Isle of White resident Willoughby Matthews.
0:40.8	Hello, Willoughby.
0:41.8	Hello Adam. What did you think when you heard Kelly
0:44.9	Sutherland say that? It was just a bit outdated really I mean it's a bit of the
0:49.3	Isle of White stereotype but we we get enough of that most of the time.
0:53.0	Okay, so we did look at the stats and the
0:57.8	20% of the Isle of White population are over 70, which is quite far above the English average of 13%.
1:07.2	Yeah, that's true, but just because people are old doesn't mean they don't use a phone.
1:11.6	Fair enough. I think she was talking more about her family and her personal experience.
1:14.8	So how is the Isle of White finding, how is the young population of the Isle of White finding
1:19.5	being in the center of the news?
1:21.1	It's a bit weird, it feels like it's in a bit of a sitcom. We're
1:24.7	used to be in the sleepy little light of white aren't we not used to not used to
1:28.4	every being the center of attention. Everyone's getting on with it and just a bit worried about all the new apps and
1:35.6	data and what's going to happen next. Willoughby thank you very much thanks for
1:38.9	getting in touch thanks for setting the record straight about the population
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