Summary
Today, as the UK faces the third heatwave already of the summer - is this the kind of summer we should expect in future?
Adam is joined by Jordan Dunbar, one of the hosts of the Climate Question podcast and Sarah Keith-Lucas lead weather presenter for the BBC. They discuss when hot weather becomes a heatwave, how prepared the UK is and whether travel habits will change as a result.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I thought we could begin this episode with an excellent email we received in the newscast inbox, |
| 0:10.9 | which you can contribute to via newscast at BBC.co.uk. We read everyone about our episode that we |
| 0:17.1 | recorded in the Cabinet Office briefing room with Pat McFadden, which we put in the feed on Tuesday. |
| 0:23.2 | And you'll remember Chris Mason and I referring to the artwork. And I was actually quite surprised |
| 0:28.5 | there was any artwork at all. Anyway, we then got an email from Gabriela, who works at the government |
| 0:34.8 | art collection. She says, and I'm going to read her email almost in full because it's so good. |
| 0:40.2 | Chris Mason described the Government Art Collection as, quote, where loads of pictures are in a cellar somewhere. |
| 0:45.7 | The Government Art Collection is actually a lively and active collection of more than 15,000 artworks that promote British art, culture in history, in the UK and abroad. |
| 0:55.4 | We're the most dispersed collection of British art in the world. |
| 0:58.9 | Our collection is based on the ground floor of the old Admiralty building. |
| 1:02.6 | And then Gabriella goes on. |
| 1:04.8 | Chris also described the government art collection in the Cabinet Office briefing room |
| 1:08.5 | as, quote, brightly coloured images of tulips or roses. |
| 1:12.2 | I actually wrote the wall texts for these artworks, and they were selected based on the historical |
| 1:17.4 | symbolism of flowers. Flowers started to appear in Dutch still-life painting in the 16th century |
| 1:23.2 | as a way to remind viewers of the fragility of life, as well as worldly pleasures and goods. |
| 1:29.1 | These prompts are particularly important considering the magnitude of decisions being made in the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms. |
| 1:36.4 | So, Gabriella, thank you very much for your email and thank you for your excellent selection of artwork in the Cabinet Office briefing rooms, |
| 1:43.8 | because I've actually been |
| 1:44.5 | thinking about them ever since we were in there and telling people about them, particularly that |
| 1:49.1 | World War I propaganda poster, which is on the wall outside the big reinforced steel door, |
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