17/08/2024
Newscast
08/17/24
•32m
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Adam Fleming and friends discuss the week's biggest stories.
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The Infected Blood Scandal Payouts
August 16, 2024
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Today, we look at the pay-outs to victims of the infected blood scandal.
The government has pledged to push ahead with compensation payments from the end of 2024, and announced that victims will receives payments for life. Adam is joined by Nick Thomas-Symonds, Paymaster General, to discuss the scandal and how the government will pay for it.
Plus, are there more rail strikes on the way? What about in the health service? Adam speaks to political correspondent Nick Eardley.
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Interview: The First British Astronaut Helen Sharman
August 18, 2024
•56m
Today we speak to the first British astronaut Helen Sharman.
Helen went to space in 1991 after responding to a radio advert calling for people to apply to become Britain’s first astronaut. After 18 months of intensive training she spent eight days in space conducting experiments.
Adam and Helen talk about living in the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, whether humans really will make it to Mars in the next decade, and the Nasa astronauts stuck in space.
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