Songs To Get Vaccinated To
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Which song would you choose to be vaccinated to?
Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free gives us the verdict on the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden’s new vaccine-themed music playlist, created just in time for all adults aged 25 and over to get their vaccine.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, welcome to newscast. |
| 0:06.3 | This is Jane Garvey sitting in for Adam Fleming |
| 0:09.2 | for the second day, and I'm just spooling through something has just come through |
| 0:13.7 | the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden's playlist designed to accompany |
| 0:19.4 | vaccinations vaccinations now available of course in England to the over 25s and Oliver |
| 0:26.4 | Dadden's department I'm going to say it's the department rather than Oliver |
| 0:30.9 | Dad himself because I'm sure he's too busy. They've compiled a |
| 0:34.2 | playlist and there's some good songs on here and there are some quite bad songs on |
| 0:38.1 | here as well. Let's discuss the playlist with Radio 1 presenter Arielle Free. |
| 0:43.0 | Arielle is doing us a real favour. |
| 0:45.0 | She's been up a very long time. |
| 0:46.0 | She does early breakfast on Radio 1. |
| 0:48.0 | Arielle, thank you and what do you make of it? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, I'm a bit disappointed that we don't have the ones |
| 0:55.9 | that we've been doing on Radio 1. |
| 0:58.5 | We have been actually changing the title of bands and tracks. For example the |
| 1:06.7 | Alpha Beat song Fascination is now called Vaccination. So when everyone |
| 1:11.8 | anyone gets the jab we call them back and sing that song down to them, down the phone to them. Greg James, you can thank for that. |
| 1:18.0 | Also, famously, Dolly Parton, not in there and she changed her Jolene lyrics to |
| 1:25.8 | Vaccine vaccine while she was getting hers done so I'm they're disappointed |
| 1:32.4 | there's none of the ones that we've changed, but do you know what? |
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