4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Some kids went back to school today in England. How is it working? Adam talks to pupils and a headteacher about their first day back. In non-coronavirus related news, Adam talks to Eugene Scott from the Washington Post about the protests in the United States sparked by the death of George Floyd, who suffered a cardiac arrest while being restrained by Minneapolis police.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Harriet Noble, Frankie Tobi, Natalie Ktena, Jo Deahl, Georgia Coan Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.7 | Hello, this weekend I was listening to Lady Gaga's new album. |
0:08.6 | And on the streaming service I was using, every few songs you get a little message from Lady Gaga where she talks about what was behind the album and what her feelings were and what her thoughts were. |
0:18.0 | So inspired by that, I'm going to do a bit of that today. |
0:22.0 | So the original idea for this podcast was the I'm going to do a bit of that today. |
0:22.6 | So the original idea for this podcast |
0:24.6 | was that it would be a daily news podcast |
0:28.2 | where we just talked about the most important, |
0:30.2 | most interesting news stories that day |
0:32.0 | and the most interesting, most important way we could think of. |
0:35.0 | Obviously then coronavirus came along and we changed that plan and we did a coronavirus |
0:40.8 | podcast. |
0:41.8 | But what we're going to start doing now just every so often is when there's a massive story that's not about coronavirus, we're going to have a chat about that too. |
0:51.0 | So for example, today we're going to talk about the quite astonishing |
0:54.6 | scenes of protests, violence, the police charging crowds, things being set on |
1:02.1 | fire in America after the death of George Floyd |
1:06.9 | Because that's a big important story with lots of implications that we think you'll be interested in, but we'll still overwhelmingly |
1:16.3 | focus on coronavirus related stories, and we're still going to talk about loads of science and medicine and health stuff. |
1:25.0 | And today we're going to start off, for example, by talking about the changes to the restrictions in England, |
1:31.0 | particularly the changes that allow some children to go back to school. |
1:36.6 | And also we're going to hear from someone who's been shielding for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks |
1:41.0 | who did their first walk to the park today. So all of that, all of it |
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