4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Nikki Fox and Emma Tracey, who are standing in for Adam, speak to actor and SNP member Brian Cox about Nicola Sturgeon?s departure, and who he would like to see in charge of the party.
And as Rishi Sunak travels to Belfast to discuss the Northern Ireland Protocol, they get the latest on developments from Ireland correspondent Chris Page.
More NHS strikes have been announced for March. Baron Victor Adebowale, Chair of the NHS Confederation, talks about how they could be resolved.
Today's episode was presented by Nikki Fox and Emma Tracey and was made by Chris Flynn with Rufus Gray, Cordelia Hemming and Miranda Slade. The technical producer is Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Verity Wilde.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.9 | Hello, everyone, it's Nikki Fox here. |
0:06.8 | Now, you might have seen me on the news presenting disability stories |
0:10.8 | or covering consumer issues on Watchdog on the telly, |
0:14.7 | or you might have even heard me hosting another BBC podcast called Access All, |
0:19.6 | which I co-host with the beautiful Emma Tracy. |
0:23.4 | Yep, that's our weekly podcast about well-being, mental health and disabled people. |
0:29.1 | But today we're filling in for Adam, stepping into his very big shoes. |
0:34.3 | And we've been listening to all the lovely messages and reading all the lovely messages |
0:38.5 | that you newscasters have been sending us. Getting to know our audience. Getting to know you. |
0:45.7 | Getting to know all about you. Anyway, now there's one message that I thought we might be able to |
0:52.4 | help with potentially. I don't know, |
0:54.7 | but it's a good one for us, disability related M's. Adam was talking about ordinance survey. So |
1:00.4 | they're potentially going to update the symbols on their maps. So normally, like the symbols |
1:06.0 | that they have at the moment, churches, battlefields, it's all very kind of 1806. They can update them with cafes, |
1:12.9 | bike shops and all that stuff. But our newscaster, Anna, has been in touch and she says, |
1:18.2 | I'm a wheelchair user. I'd like the new ordinance service symbols to show if a boundary crossing |
1:22.9 | is accessible or not. I can plan a route, but if there is a style, my wheelchair can't do it. |
1:30.3 | Right. Okay. So there needs to be a little style symbol so that you can take a different route? |
1:36.1 | Yeah, but more than that, the whims. When I was reading this story, I thought, well, why not sort of, you know, I hate this expression, kill two birds with one stone. It's awful, isn't it? But yeah, I say it a lot. But why not just use that as a way of, you know, I hate this expression, kill two birds with one stone. It's awful, isn't it? |
1:44.2 | But yeah, I say it a lot. |
1:45.4 | But why not just use that as a way of, you know, pointing out where things are accessible? |
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