Summary
John Bird, co-founder of The Big Issue, warns of the risk of mass homelessness at a time when prices are going up. He tells us he wants the government to spend £1 trillion to fix the problem.
First up though, Dr Amir Khan drops by to explain why this year’s flu jab campaign is the biggest ever. Like his boxing namesake, he wants people to get jabbed.
And the UK is eating less MEAT but still too much to MEET a key sustainability target, according to scientists at Oxford. We MEET the lead researcher, Cristina Stewart, who says that not all meat is equal…
Today’s Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg with producers Alix Pickles and Ben Cooper. The studio manager was Mike Regaard and the assistant editor was Ali Gee. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, we're going to be joined on today's episode of newscast by Amir Khan, the GP Amir Khan. |
| 0:11.4 | Hello. |
| 0:12.4 | Hi, I'm glad you clarified that. |
| 0:15.0 | Very important. |
| 0:16.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:17.0 | And we're going to be talking about the flu vaccination program that's just started and getting a bit of a COVID update. |
| 0:21.0 | But of course, I mean you must spend your whole life saying oh no I'm not that |
| 0:25.1 | Amier Khan I'm this Amier Khan. Yeah I really do. |
| 0:29.2 | Normally people are really disappointed when I turn up to like a restaurant or if an |
| 0:34.4 | Uber driver picks me up and I put a mere calm down and it's like visible |
| 0:39.7 | disappointment. Some of them are like verbally disappointed as well. They're going, oh well I was |
| 0:44.3 | really excited and my wife was really excited and now I'm going to have to tell her it |
| 0:48.0 | wasn't him and I'm like, oh I'm really sorry. People can be so rude but But basically to up the ante on this, I've managed to track down an actor called Daniel Craig. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello Daniel. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi, how are you doing? |
| 1:02.0 | Good thanks. Now you've actually gone down the equity route and you |
| 1:04.6 | know call yourself Daniel Craig salmon don't you yes yeah that's a hyphen my |
| 1:08.5 | middle and last name just to make it very clear what's it been like going through life with the name |
| 1:14.7 | Daniel Craig? It's good you know what it's always good, there's always people that |
| 1:18.8 | always make the joke and it's like oh I thought you'd be James Bond and I'm like |
| 1:22.3 | completely opposite more like Austin Powers than James Bun. |
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