So long, furlough, auf wiedersehen, goodbye
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the government’s new economic measures for when the furlough scheme ends next month. Adam and Laura are joined by Simon Jack to look at the choices now facing businesses, and we’re given a maths lesson on how it could work for you by University Challenge’s Bobby Seagull. Plus, BBC tech correspondent Zoe Kleinman answers your questions on the new Track and Trace app that launched today.
Producers: Frankie Tobi, Seren Jones Assistant Editor: Emma Close
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, there is so much news about coronavirus today and we're going to talk about some of it. |
| 0:10.0 | The app, do you remember, the English NHS COVID contact tracing app? |
| 0:14.4 | It's finally arrived. |
| 0:15.4 | You can download it now, lots of people have. |
| 0:17.8 | We will put your questions to one of our tech experts and get some answers. |
| 0:22.2 | And also, Ritchie Sunak, the Chancellor, |
| 0:24.3 | did a sort of mini budget today that wasn't a budget, |
| 0:27.4 | but it did have lots of measures |
| 0:28.8 | to help the economy over the next few months. |
| 0:31.6 | The centerpiece of it being a new scheme to replace the |
| 0:34.2 | furlough scheme where the government will step in and give some money to help people |
| 0:39.6 | top up their wages if their hours are reduced. |
| 0:43.4 | It's quite complicated and it does mean I'm afraid there are quite a lot of numbers in this episode |
| 0:48.4 | of Newscast. |
| 0:49.4 | Newscast. |
| 0:50.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:52.0 | What is this virus? How does it spread? |
| 0:54.4 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 0:56.8 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 0:59.5 | There have been 300,000 and 34,974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:07.0 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. We're not out of the woods yet. |
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