When will it stop raining?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at why it has been raining in England and Wales so much recently - and how UK infrastructure copes during unusually wet periods.

Why is this happening? What effect does heavy rainfall have on our industries and environment? And how can we adapt buildings and transport to better suit the UK’s changing climate?

Adam is joined by Countryfile and Farming Today presenter, Charlotte Smith, BBC weather presenter, Simon King and Chief Executive at the UK Green Building Council, Smith Mordak.

And Chris Packham tells us how animals are getting on in this wet weather. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.0	Hopefully that sound effect hasn't either
0:12.8	need the loo or be think it's actually started raining on you
0:15.8	when you're listening to this episode of newscast.
0:18.3	It's from our high-tech no-expense spirit sound effects library.
0:22.1	And the reason we're playing rain directly into your brain
0:25.0	is because today's episode of newscast is going to pose the question,
0:29.0	why has it been raining so much? And then the supplementary question about actually
0:35.1	what are the implications of it having rained so much over the last couple of months.
0:39.2	Now obviously you need to then think who do you have on your podcast to talk about that subject?
0:43.6	So we thought do we get Lorraine Kelly, Kevin McLeod, Stormsy?
0:50.3	Then we thought oh maybe we need to go into a more political direction.
0:53.3	Angela Raynor, is she free?
0:55.2	But then of course you need to have some BBC impartiality, so we need a Tory as well.
0:59.0	How about Sir Roger Gale?
1:00.3	Anyway, none of those people are available, but you know what has famous people in it?
1:04.8	The new newscast opening titles. We asked you to identify all the people in it for the first time
1:10.6	when we played them in the last episode.
1:16.0	Did you? We'll reveal that at the end of this episode after we've talked about the rain. Newscast.
1:17.0	Newscast from the BBC.
1:19.0	Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken cone.
1:23.0	He's not a leader. He is a human weather vein.
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