Six Months or More?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Naked Scientist Dr Chris Smith joins the pod as new Covid-19 restrictions are announced, to last 6 months or perhaps even longer - but will it help us handle a second wave, or should we be making more drastic policy decisions? Phil Sim and Rajdeep Sandhu answer your questions and get Dr Smith's expert opinion as a virologist. How long does he think we may live with the pandemic?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast gives you an inside look at the big stories coming of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.8 | It is 5 past two on Tuesday |
| 0:21.7 | the 24th of September. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament, but currently |
| 0:26.3 | recording from under a duvet at home. And today I am joined by... I'm Rajseep Sundu, Westminster |
| 0:31.6 | correspondent for the nine, and I wasn't dedicated enough to build myself a fault, I'm afraid. |
| 0:37.0 | Just recording without a floor. Just recording in my room. I mean, I guess if you enough to build myself a fort, I'm afraid. Just recording without a floor. |
| 0:38.3 | Just recording in my room. |
| 0:39.8 | I mean, I guess if you have to do that, I guess you can. |
| 0:42.6 | And we're also joined by Dr. Chris Smith from the Naked Scientist podcast. |
| 0:46.1 | Chris, you are a virologist, so I guess this is kind of a boom time for you just now. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah, you could say that. |
| 0:51.7 | I've had quieter years. It's not often that you have a virologist who's a virologist who does media and then |
| 0:58.4 | you have a pandemic that eclipses the world in the way that it has and dominates for so |
| 1:02.5 | long. |
| 1:03.4 | And, yeah, it's kept me busy. |
| 1:05.1 | So, I mean, we're here because exactly six months to the day after the UK first went |
| 1:09.4 | into lockdown, new restrictions |
| 1:11.3 | have come into force across the country as what appears to be a new wave of coronavirus cases |
| 1:15.6 | starts to build. |
| 1:17.1 | And we've had a ton of questions coming from our loyal listeners about these changes. |
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