Viral Vaccine Invites
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Teachers have been sent messages inviting them to book appointments for vaccinations, against official priority rules. Our very own Newscast Reporter, Daniel Wittenberg, explains what’s going on. And North America Tech Reporter, James Clayton, walks Adam through the History of Amazon, after Jeff Bezos announces he'll step down as CEO of the e-commerce giant.
Producers: Kameron Virk, Georgia Coan, Frankie Tobi Senior Producer: Rick Kelsey Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Today's newscast is a special, in part, co-production with BBC Solence Dorset |
| 0:10.9 | Dorset Breakfast Show, which is presented by Steve Harris. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello Steve. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello Adam. |
| 0:15.3 | Hello. |
| 0:16.3 | Now, the reason I've reeled you in is because you have turned out to be very good at reeling |
| 0:20.2 | in celebrities. |
| 0:22.2 | Tell us what happened for the few people that haven't heard this amazing story already. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, sort of travelled around the globe. |
| 0:28.0 | More by luck than by judgment to be honest. |
| 0:30.0 | I have been following the progress of a local sailor to us, Dan endorsed it, called Pip Hair. |
| 0:35.0 | And it's her birthday on Sunday she's taking part in this incredible round the world yacht race. |
| 0:39.0 | She's a great human being who I didn't know before I met her through the show last year and I thought she's had |
| 0:46.6 | 87 88 days at sea by herself up to this point. I thought with her birthday coming up I should get some people to wish her a |
| 0:53.2 | happy birthday and I approached people from the sailing world you know big names like |
| 0:57.1 | so Ben Ainsley and Dame Ellen MacArthur and they were kind enough to send through |
| 1:00.3 | their birthday messages but her said, she loved Russell Crow |
| 1:04.2 | because of his role as Jack Aubrey and Master and Commander. |
| 1:07.7 | And, well, I like a challenge. |
| 1:09.8 | So I sent a message to his agents in Los Angeles for the record they never got back |
| 1:14.6 | but I've seen that Russell Croix interacts with people on Twitter sometimes |
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