Text Me When You’re Home
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
How safe do women feel walking alone? The BBC’s Sima Kotecha and Journalist, Helena Wadia, talk through some of reasons why why so many women are speaking out about their personal safety on social media right now. And Adam catches up with BBC Health Editor, Hugh Pym, and Professor Alan McNally about what’s going on with NHS Test and Trace.
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Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Danny Wittenberg, Alix Pickles Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's about 830 on Wednesday night, |
| 0:07.7 | and I'm speaking to you from home |
| 0:10.3 | because we finished recording today's episode a couple of hours ago and a big part of it was talking about the disappearance of Sarah Everard, the 33 year old woman who went missing a week ago as she was walking home in South London. |
| 0:26.9 | Now in the last few minutes the metropolitan police have announced that they found some |
| 0:31.1 | human remains in a woodland in Kent. |
| 0:35.0 | So we'll have to wait a little while to find out what that means for the |
| 0:38.8 | investigation. But the background to the case, the details of the investigation, and also the wider issues for society still stand. |
| 0:50.0 | And we'll talk about them in this edition of Newscast. |
| 0:53.2 | Newscast. |
| 0:54.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:55.8 | What is this virus? |
| 0:57.0 | How does it spread? |
| 0:58.2 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:00.6 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. There have been |
| 1:04.0 | 300,000 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. The reason we could |
| 1:12.2 | never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:17.0 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello, it's Sima at home in Buckinghamshire. Hello you how you doing? I'm good |
| 1:26.6 | thanks how are you now I've got a favour to ask okay I am taking some holiday or leave as we pretendiously call it at the BBC as if we're like in the army or something |
| 1:37.0 | on the 29th of March so that leaves a couple of episodes of this podcast that need presented by somebody. |
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