“The Earthquake Orphan”

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors under the rubble of buildings in southern Turkey and northern Syria after two huge earthquakes on Monday. Adam and the BBC’s Lyse Doucet discuss some of the stories of hope and loss in the aftermath of the quake. They speak to one man from Manchester who’s helping to get aid out to the affected areas. Also, we get the latest on the mini-reshuffle with Chris and Alex Forsyth, host of the BBC’s Any Questions. Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and was made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The assistant editor was Louisa Lewis.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.8	That heavy breathing you can hear is Chris Mason,
0:10.2	who has just actually run up the stairs.
0:11.9	I do, I always should.
0:12.9	I don't use the lifts in this building,
0:14.2	but there is the danger you leave it too late
0:16.1	to get up to doing a live and you're out of breath,
0:18.3	out of breath in a way where,
0:19.9	you know, I'm not proper out of breath now,
0:21.2	but you can hear it.
0:22.2	Yeah, exactly.
0:23.0	So the reason Chris and I are having this conversation
0:25.1	is because we're very rarely in the same room
0:27.0	and we're in the same room at Broadcasting House today.
0:29.1	I'm very proud of that.
0:30.1	And Chris will be back in a bit.
0:32.7	Oh, actually, did you get Beyonce tickets?
0:34.9	No.
0:36.1	I'm afraid I didn't.
0:37.2	I wish I had.
0:38.1	That'd be great.
0:39.0	I didn't because I've spent enough on tickets already this year.
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