4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Is it realistic to start thinking about a summer holiday abroad? Even if the airports reopen, will it be safe to travel? John Holland-Kaye, the chief executive of London Heathrow Airport joins the pod to talk about temperature tests and travel plans. And the prime minister Boris Johnson faces Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer for the very first time at Prime Minister’s Questions.
Producers: Jo Deahl, Nick Rotherham, Frankie Tobi, Harriet Noble and Seren Jones.
Assistant Editor: Emma Close
Editor Dino Sofos
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.7 | Now you know occasionally I like to just play some ambient sound for us all to relax to. |
0:09.0 | Today it's going to be the sound of a place I love, the airport. Yes, I'm a big airport geek, and on today. |
0:25.0 | Yes, I'm a big airport geek geek. |
0:30.0 | And on today's episode, we're going to do a really detailed look behind the scenes of Heathrow Airport |
0:34.8 | and how they're coping with the coronavirus crisis and what the future of flying might look like. |
0:40.0 | We'll do that with their CEO and of course we'll bring you up to date with all the latest news as we take off the latest episode the coronavirus newscast. |
0:48.6 | The coronavirus newscast from the BBC. |
0:51.1 | What is this virus? How does it spread? |
0:53.0 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
0:56.0 | I got some test results back for coronavirus and it came back positive. |
1:01.0 | We're just kind of trying to feel our way into this new normal. I must level with you level with the British public. |
1:08.0 | More families and many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time. |
1:13.6 | Relax, we're doing great. It all will pay us. |
1:17.6 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
1:20.2 | And Laura in a different studio. |
1:21.9 | Hello. Hello. Right, well, I don't know why I'm being so cheerful because the number of deaths has obviously gone up as it does every day and it's now gone beyond 30,000 and of course every death is a tragedy but there are then those |
1:35.1 | symbolic points that they reach and also the number of tests appears to have gone down again. I mean it's been a very grim day in lots of ways and |
1:46.4 | there is something about those numbers passing a new tens of thousands and that doesn't mean that any more of those that were |
1:54.4 | reported today mean any more or any less but that tally there's just something |
1:57.9 | about it and again it shows that the UK certainly on that particular measure is still ahead of all the other countries in |
2:04.2 | Europe in terms of the numbers of people who've passed away and second only to the |
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