Summary
Today, we look at Labour’s plan to renationalise most rail services within five years, if it wins the next election.
Labour say a new public body would take over current contracts when they expire, taking on the responsibility for running services. But transport secretary Mark Harper said the plans were "unfunded". Labour’s shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh joins Adam and Alex to talk through the plans, and answers the question - why is wifi so bad on some trains?
And, comedian and social media star Michael Spicer talks about his new sketch podcast No Room.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Alex Versayth is here. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm guessing you arrived by train? |
| 0:08.5 | I did. |
| 0:09.5 | Because actually your job requires lots of train travel. |
| 0:12.4 | What percentage of your life do you think is spent on a train? |
| 0:15.2 | Oh that's a good one so like I'd say you know I reckon a good five to six hours a week if not a bit more so what |
| 0:22.2 | percentage is that out of your working week? |
| 0:24.0 | Well so you do like a 60 hour working week. This is like when politicians are asked to do |
| 0:28.4 | 10 divided by 15 or whatever. That's quite a lot. Yeah that is a lot. What's your train strategy? Do you read? Do you work? Do you sleep? Do you phone people? |
| 0:36.5 | In an ideal world I'd have some music on my headphones and be working on my laptop, but that's only if you can get a seat which obviously frequently doesn't |
| 0:42.8 | happen because then you can't really work on your laptop so you've got a backup |
| 0:45.7 | phone although I have been known to balance laptop in hand and work while standing up. |
| 0:50.8 | Well there's lots of things there that we can discuss with the Shadow Transport |
| 0:54.0 | Secretary because she's been talking about trains a lot today and that's something we're going to pick up on |
| 0:58.3 | on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:00.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:01.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:02.4 | Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken comb |
| 1:06.6 | he's not a leader he is a human weather vein |
| 1:09.5 | to cheeks of the same backside No politicians are listening to what's happening. |
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