Summary
There are some chunky virus figures out. We look at the effect of the vaccine rollout and the return of schools with our Health Correspondent James Gallagher. We also chat with Jamie L. Manson, the President of Catholics for Choice, and the first LGBTQ person to lead a Catholic organisation in the United States on the Pope’s approach to same-sex marriage – and what she hopes will change.
Studio Manager: Emma Crowe Producers: Natalie Ktena, Daniel Wittenberg, Georgia Coan and Ben Weisz Episode Editor: Rick Kelsey Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. |
| 0:05.7 | When I think back on my career as a journalist, |
| 0:08.0 | I'm just so glad that people took chances on me |
| 0:11.0 | and invested in me and I get to do this job that I love as a result. |
| 0:15.3 | And so the BBC is trying to make sure that happens for more people in more places. |
| 0:21.1 | And one of the ways they do that is through the young reporter competition which is a |
| 0:25.9 | competition for you guessed it young reporters and one of the winners of this year's |
| 0:31.5 | version is Zoe from Tyneside who's 15 hello Zoe how are you I'm fine thank you |
| 0:37.9 | congratulations on your title thank you now the story that you did that impressed the editors so much is one that people might find a bit sort of |
| 0:47.6 | sad or difficult or why don't you just explain what the story is that you did? |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah, my story was about, well my mom passed away in May last year. |
| 0:57.6 | And when I went back to school, because I went back into a GCSA year, |
| 1:02.0 | I realized that there actually isn't very much support for bereaved students at all and I really wanted to see if I could make a change. |
| 1:10.0 | And yeah, so what did you kind of discover about all of that then? |
| 1:13.4 | Well, I realized that the Joint Center for Qualifications had a sort of a guideline of... |
| 1:19.7 | And they're kind of like the body that oversees the exam boards aren't they? |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah. Yeah. I realized that they had sort of a guideline of how bereaved students are supported |
| 1:29.6 | and it shocked me really that the maximum grade uplift a bereaved student could get was 5% of the total marks |
| 1:38.0 | But the bereavement had to have happened within two months, which I thought was quite strange because of obviously grief |
| 1:47.4 | impact people for a lot longer than two months after the incident. |
| 1:51.6 | And so is there any prospect of this changing or have you got any kind of big names in the education world to get on board with this? |
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