The Week That Changed Everything
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
One year on, the team look back at the week that sent the nation into lockdown. Adam, Laura and Fergus talk through political regrets, and how far from normal things still are. Newscasters share sounds of what they were up to right before lockdown. The sounds of freedom they look forward to hearing again.
Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with producers Ben Weisz, Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. The studio director is Emma Crowe. Emma Close was the assistant editor and Dino Sofos is the editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, and hello to Fergus and hello to Laura. |
| 0:07.4 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:08.7 | Now, I am a big believer that life is lived forward, |
| 0:12.5 | definitely, I mean, that's just true, isn't it? |
| 0:14.7 | But there are times when actually it is definitely worth |
| 0:17.8 | looking back. |
| 0:19.0 | And so I thought we could do that today because, |
| 0:21.5 | as probably everyone knows, it is a year. |
| 0:24.9 | Since the 23rd of March, 2020, |
| 0:26.8 | when Boris Johnson announced the lockdown, |
| 0:29.5 | the first one. |
| 0:30.9 | And do you want to have a little look back |
| 0:33.2 | at what we were doing then? |
| 0:34.8 | Of limey. |
| 0:35.8 | Craky. |
| 0:40.6 | We've had a sense for a while about how big an issue |
| 0:44.1 | coronavirus is going to become. |
| 0:46.1 | But if anyone was in any doubt, as far as the UK is concerned, |
| 0:50.5 | we've got a huge sense today from the Prime Minister |
| 0:53.1 | and the senior scientific and medical advisors |
| 0:56.2 | of just how big a deal it is. |
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