Summary
Jane Garvey is back and, fortunately, the Suez Canal has reopened too! Chris Mason joins Jane for a chat outside Westminster to talk about the easing of lockdown restrictions in England. And we talk through what's happening in UK sex education classes, in light of recent claims of sexual abuse in schools.
Today’s Newscast was made by Ben Weisz with Danny Wittenberg, Alix Pickles and Ben Cooper. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Sam Bonham was the Assistant Editor and Dino Sofos was the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi, welcome, this is Jane Garvey off the subspench today, and it's a special day |
| 0:09.5 | because the ever given is free. Free from that sandbank on the Sioux is canal and we're |
| 0:15.7 | told sailing happily away towards the great bitter lake where it's going to have |
| 0:21.0 | some very important safety checks. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's just get the sound of celebration from the tugboats responsible for freeing the ever given. |
| 0:32.0 | Fantastic. And tub boats may be your thing. If they're not your thing, they will be after you've heard the next interview. |
| 0:40.0 | Because this is a barge master, a barge master the barge master to no less a person than |
| 0:46.3 | Her Majesty the Queen. |
| 0:48.0 | He is Chris Livet, he's also the MD of Livet's, which is the family's tugboat company. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi, Chris. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello. |
| 0:56.0 | In your entire, your professional life, |
| 0:58.0 | has this been the most exciting logistical thing |
| 1:02.0 | connected to tugs and tug boats for you. |
| 1:05.6 | I mean I've been around for many years, 40 years as a tugmaster now and we've seen a lot of |
| 1:11.3 | incidents in the North Sea, incidents with oil rigs and so forth. |
| 1:14.8 | But I guess for the sewage canal, this has to be the biggest and probably the worst possible |
| 1:20.6 | event that they could not wish for. |
| 1:23.0 | Right, okay, and mercifully, no one has been hurt, certainly there's been no loss of life, |
| 1:30.0 | so for the rest of us, total civilians, it's been frankly fascinating. |
| 1:35.1 | I guess you've been thinking about it professionally. |
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