Summary
On the day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK is now seeing a second wave, we try to figure out what the government means when they say they are considering a "circuit-break" approach for suppressing the spread of coronavirus. Also, we discuss the model Emily Ratajkowski’s viral blog about who owns the rights to her image.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Harriet Noble, Alix Pickles Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham
Many thanks to New York Magazine’s The Cut podcast for the audio of Emily Ratajkowski used in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Let's play, name that mystery sound. |
| 0:07.2 | Please can we have the mystery sound? |
| 0:10.8 | I think we need to hear that again. |
| 0:15.0 | One more time. |
| 0:20.0 | That, I'm sure you know, is the sound of a circuit breaker, because that is the new word that government figures are using to describe |
| 0:25.6 | what the government might do as the next thing to try and control coronavirus after the rule of six. |
| 0:31.8 | What it means, we'll discuss later, but what is a circuit breaker? |
| 0:35.6 | I'm glad to say we've got a real-life electrician on the line and it's Nina Vaughn from |
| 0:39.9 | Brickhouse in West Yorkshire. Hello Nina. Hello. I know nothing about DIY or electronics or anything. |
| 0:46.8 | What is a circuit breaker? |
| 0:47.8 | Okay. Well, a DIY should definitely not be messing about with circuit break as that's for certain. |
| 0:53.2 | Good point. Your electricity in your house needs to come from the supplier to run through all your |
| 0:59.5 | electrical devices and it needs to do that on a path from the supplier through your devices and it needs to do that on a path from the supplier through your |
| 1:04.1 | devices and back to the supplier's transformer and that is called your |
| 1:08.2 | circuit. So a circuit breaker is designed that if there's an excess of current where you could have |
| 1:15.0 | thousands of amps flowing through, then it will open the circuit so that there's a |
| 1:20.0 | breaking the path and then no current can flow. |
| 1:23.0 | Okay, so it's, is it like an off switch? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, that's essentially what it is, I suppose. |
| 1:30.0 | It's a little bit more complicated than that, but yeah is a switch it just breaks the path in terms of where these circuit |
| 1:36.8 | breakers are is there one like going into my flat for everything or will I have multiple circuit breakers in my flat? |
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