Together in Electric Schemes

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A million people have signed up to a scheme with the National Grid which rewards them with discounts if they reduce how much energy they use. Adam finds out how one customer has already saved £35 after signing up to the scheme and Newsnight’s economics editor Ben Chu explains how it works and why it was introduced. The BBC’s Home Affairs correspondent, June Kelly looks at the future of the probation service, after a report highlighted a catalogue of failings that left a serial offender free to murder Zara Aleena. Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and was made by Tim Walklate with Madeleine Drury and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Louisa Lewis.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello. Well, we've had a story of controversy around two Edward's comments about Chris
0:11.0	Mason saying ooze at the end of every episode of newscast, or most episodes of newscast.
0:17.6	We will address that later on in this episode of newscast.
0:21.9	Newscast from the BBC. He got trounced by the former Prime Minister
0:26.4	who herself got beaten by a letter. At least I didn't slap anybody which is good.
0:30.2	Rean economy. La, blah, blah. It's the Guardian reading.
0:34.2	Tofu eating. Woe perarti. I'm actually very right-wing.
0:37.8	You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle. Today I feel a gay.
0:41.6	The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
0:44.1	I'm here because I like Harry and Meghan, and I don't care what anybody says about me.
0:49.1	Hello, it's Adam in the studio. And first of all, we're going to combine home gadgets.
0:54.6	Data about how you live your life. And the fact that energy prices have gone through the roof
1:00.5	as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Because all those fascinating interesting things
1:05.3	have come together. Because for the last couple of days, the National Grid, who kind of
1:09.8	run the energy grid in the UK, have been paying people to use less electricity at peak
1:16.5	times. On Monday, it was between five and six. On Tuesday, it's between four thirty
1:22.8	and six. And that's when we're recording this episode of newscast, which means we can
1:27.5	work out and find out what's going on. And if this is actually working with our colleague,
1:32.6	News Knight, economics editor Ben Chiu, who's here. Hi, Ben.
1:35.7	Hello, Adam.
1:36.7	So you're going for the jumper and jackets.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.