The Bleak Midwinter
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
More than 40 countries have banned flights from the UK as we learn more about the new variant of coronavirus that's spreading. There's disruption at Dover, and yes, somebody mentioned the B-word... Thank goodness for the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, James Gallagher and Simon Jack who’ve joined Adam to talk it all through.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Alix Pickles, Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, at the weekend I heard a choir singing in the bleak midwinter, |
| 0:10.0 | which is an absolutely beautiful, amazing Christmas carol, |
| 0:15.0 | but just that word bleak really got me this time |
| 0:20.0 | because I feel incredibly bleak. I had massive huge Christmas plans that were within the rules and I was very |
| 0:28.1 | excited about them. But then the rules changed and I'm not going to get to do them now and I am genuinely very |
| 0:37.4 | sad about that and I know that that is the same for you too probably you've had to change your plans depending on where you live |
| 0:47.6 | and I just wanted to say that because the news is all about what's happening at ports, what's happening at other countries borders with British travelers, |
| 0:58.0 | what's going on with the trade deal with the EU, what do the scientists think about the new variant and what could that mean for the |
| 1:04.7 | tier system in the new year and all that stuff. |
| 1:07.7 | And I just don't want you to think that we are ignoring the awful kind of family emotional Christmas dimension to |
| 1:16.5 | everything that's going on. That's my kind of speech over and we'll now continue with this episode of newscast. |
| 1:24.3 | Newscast. |
| 1:25.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:27.0 | What is this virus? |
| 1:28.1 | How does it spread? |
| 1:29.3 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:31.8 | No one's got to have fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:34.5 | There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests |
| 1:40.2 | carried out across the UK. |
| 1:41.8 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:48.0 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
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