The Road to Freedom
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As Boris Johnson lays out his ‘cautious' and 'irreversible’ plan for lifting England’s lockdown, Adam, Laura, Fergus and Branwen talk you through the steps: from schools to stadia and beyond.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Natalie Ktena and Georgia Coan Episode Editor: Ben Weisz Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, the Prime Minister unveiled the roadmap, the four steps that will take England |
| 0:09.8 | out of lockdown by the summer, which of course called for a colourful metaphor. |
| 0:14.4 | The crocus of hope is poking through the frost and spring is on its way. |
| 0:20.6 | So I think the frost is the lockdown, the crocus is us, the sun is the vaccine and the |
| 0:31.3 | soil is the road map. |
| 0:35.0 | Enough poetry on with the podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | Newscast. |
| 0:39.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:41.0 | What is this virus? |
| 0:42.0 | How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 0:45.6 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 0:48.3 | There have been 300,000 and 34,974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 0:55.0 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:02.0 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:07.0 | And is Lorena Cab on a one-way route. |
| 1:10.0 | It's Fergus in the Windsor Bureau. |
| 1:12.0 | And Bramwin tucked up in North West. It's Fergus in the Winter Bureau. |
| 1:13.0 | And Bramwyn tucked up in North Wales. |
| 1:16.0 | And yeah, we're recording this episode on Monday night at 1030. |
| 1:20.0 | That's why Laura's in a cab, because she's leaving work and going home very late |
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