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 8.30 on Wednesday night, and I'm speaking to you from home because we finished |
| 0:11.3 | recording today's episode a couple of hours ago, and a big part of it was talking about |
| 0:16.0 | the disappearance of Sarah Everard, the 33-year-old woman who went missing a week ago as she was walking home in |
| 0:25.0 | South London. Now, in the last few minutes, the Metropolitan Police have announced that they found |
| 0:30.9 | some human remains in a woodland in Kent. 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 |
| 0:47.0 | wider issues for society still stand. And we'll talk about them in this edition of Newscast. |
| 0:53.2 | 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? |
| 1:00.7 | No one's got a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:03.4 | There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:10.6 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:17.5 | When on out of the woods yet. |
| 1:20.6 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:22.3 | Hello, it's Seema at home in Buckinghamshire. |
| 1:24.9 | Hello, you. How are you doing? |
| 1:26.2 | I'm good, thanks. How are you? Now, I've got a favour to ask. |
| 1:29.7 | Okay. I am taking some holiday or leave, as we pretentously call it at the BBC, as if we're |
| 1:35.6 | like in the Army or something, on the 29th of March. So that leaves a couple of episodes of this |
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