The Test and Trace Race

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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As large parts of the north-east of England are put under further restrictions, and figures today reveal only a third of people are receiving their covid test results within 24 hours, what’s going wrong? Adam, Laura and James ask the former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about what the backlog could mean for the Winter. And, Samantha Bond reads us extracts of the new book by Lady Sasha Squire that’s got everyone in Westminster talking.

Producers: Frankie Tobi, Ben Weisz, Nat Ktena, Alix Pickles Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	I've called up Jeremy Hunt to help us out with this episode.
0:07.6	Hello Jeremy.
0:08.6	Hi.
0:09.6	Now obviously you're a former health secretary,
0:11.7	but your last big job in the cabinet was foreign
0:14.1	secretary.
0:15.6	So I thought I'd combine that with some of the news today, which is that Guadalupe has been taken
0:20.5	off the travel corridors list, so people from Guadalupe have to
0:23.2	quarantine when they arrive in the UK. So I'm going to give you a little Guadalupe
0:27.8	quiz as a former foreign secretary. It's just for just for fun question one Guadalupe's nearest neighbor is a British
0:36.4	territory called
0:38.4	Saint Lucia monserrat monserat there we are the flight to go visit it as foreign sauen Moncerat. Moncerat.
0:42.5	There we are.
0:43.4	The flight to visit as Foreign Secretary.
0:45.2	That trip as Foreign Secretary was beckoning,
0:47.4	but I never quite took it up.
0:48.9	Well, the next question is linked to that.
0:51.3	The flight to Guadalupe leaving London tomorrow at
0:54.0	six twenty a.m. via Paris takes how long is it nine hours 13 hours or 25 hours?
1:01.3	I would guess 13 hours.
1:04.6	Correct. The prize is not a flight, a ticket on that flight by the way.
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