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🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan |
| 0:05.2 | I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy |
| 0:10.2 | podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. |
| 0:13.0 | Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh, |
| 0:18.0 | making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things. |
| 0:22.0 | But you know I also know that comedy is really |
| 0:24.4 | subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer |
| 0:29.6 | from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you |
| 0:36.2 | fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:41.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | Greetings everybody. Hello, this is Gareth Mitchell, at Gareth M on Twitter, if you fancy saying hi. |
| 0:52.0 | Thank you very much indeed for joining me here on this jolly podcast edition of BBC Inside Science from Radio 4. |
| 0:58.4 | This is our 9th of July edition. |
| 1:01.2 | Today, continue straight on in a hundred meters turn actually we have no idea |
| 1:06.9 | where to turn. Does that sum up in fact where we are in developing the UK's own |
| 1:11.8 | answer to GPS. |
| 1:14.0 | Also today in an era of false information |
| 1:16.2 | and an increasingly geopolitically divided internet, |
| 1:19.3 | we're looking for guidance from the web scientists. And also we're investigating elitism and |
| 1:24.7 | inequality from 6,000 years ago. Well first is the UK losing its way when it comes |
| 1:31.5 | to satellite navigation? Now sure there's good old |
| 1:34.4 | GPS but other countries and regions either have or are building satellite |
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