WEBVTT - The UK Report with Gavin Grey 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.920 And so we go to the UK reports for this 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.480 morning and it's a terribly British start to the UK 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.360 report gaming because we're going to talk about the weather. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:12.280 Good morning, is okay? 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.880 We are indeed, yes our third heat wave of the 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.480 summer so far this year. Now, the heat waves here 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.479 are basically when you have a number of days over 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.960 thirty celsius. And of course that may not sound terribly 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.960 dramatic to you guys, but it is pretty big here 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.080 because we're not sort of cut out and certainly nature 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.040 here isn't cutout of noticing things dying back and dying 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.680 off in the gardens and in the countryside as well, 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.440 and a big shortage of water. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:43.240 I'll come to that in a minute. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:47.320 So yesterday wasn't as hot as they were predicting, but 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.879 it was over thirty three degrees celsius. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.280 And Scotland. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:59.080 Recording temperatures over thirty two celsius, which is very unusual. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.440 That's the first time Scotland has exceeded thirty celsius in 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.080 the last couple of years. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.119 But it's the fact that it's the third heat wave. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.839 Normally we might get one, but this time already before 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.240 we've even got through to mid July, we're having three, 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.200 which suggests of course. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.800 That they could be more on the way. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.040 In Europe, it has led to temperatures bordering on forty 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:28.080 seven celsius in southern Portugal and southern Spain really really 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.400 baking things there, and that of course has led to 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:37.600 what some are saying could be many hundreds of undiagnosed 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.240 deaths as it were, because of the heat wave. But 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.520 what is also leading to here in the UK is 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.039 that now we've got hose pipe bands, water restrictions for 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:52.680 millions of people and that is obviously causing some concern. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.320 We are seeing seven million. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.960 Now in the area of Yorkshire that's in the northeast, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:04.000 Kent in the southeast, and Sussex in the south of England, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:09.519 all affected with restrictions on certain activities like watering gardens, 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.320 washing cars, filling up paddling pools and a heft defying 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.440 threatened for all of that Southeast. Water, which is the 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.520 one that obviously governs down in the southeast of England, 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.639 said demand for drinking water had reached record levels since May. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:29.280 We've not really had any substantial rainfall for some considerable 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.560 time now here in the UK, and I'm afraid that's 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:37.359 also meant as well quite a few wildfires. First of all, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.880 wildfire warnings across almost all of Britain, but in Scotland 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.200 an extreme wildfire is in effect after cruise have been 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.720 battling a blaze in Perth, and firefighters near me here 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.200 in Surrey, to the southwest of London battling a blaze 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.639 in a beautiful stretch of woodland south of Farnham, where 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:02.040 that blaze eight hectors in size of last night. Local 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.480 people being told to avoid the area and keep windows 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:06.480 and doors shut. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.680 Yeah, my mum's been telling me about the heat and 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.840 being outside in the garden and very very hot, she says. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:18.560 All right. Two men, both age twenty one, have appeared 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.000 in court after a car crashed into a care home 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.640 in Sunderland, in the north of England. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.240 Yes, so the pair were allegedly in a BMW three 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:35.400 series car and this car was being pursued by police. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.600 Now we're not entirely sure what the pursuit was about, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.600 but all this will no doubt come out, and at 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.920 very high speed the car smashed into a care. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.440 Home which was beside the road. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.839 I would have said, but actually some distance back from 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.280 the road and left a gaping hole in it. Now 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.600 that led to a number of the care home residents being. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:01.280 Taken to hospital. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.440 Others were evacuated, but police are also investigating. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:05.960 Was two days. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.400 Within a day after the crash, two of the care 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.320 home residents died. Now, of course they are elderly, one 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.479 in her eighties, one in her nineties. But could it 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.400 be linked to the shock of having a car crashed 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.800 through into the lounge or the area where you are. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.720 You know, it must have been quite. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.400 Terrifying, So the authorities are looking at whether there is 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.440 a link between the crash and their deaths. Two twenty 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.200 one year olds have appeared now in court. They're charged 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:39.000 with robbery of a BMW three series and the kidnap 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.640 of a woman selling the car who was in the. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.120 Vehicle for a test drive. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:43.960 Oh my god. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.800 Now one is of no fixed address. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.400 He's also charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.760 and one of the care home residents suffered spinal fractures 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.680 and they've both been reminded to in court later on. Now, 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.080 as you can imagine, people are very curious as to 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:06.240 what the police pursuit was about, potentially relating to these 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.560 charges potentially something else, but also did the police really 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.480 need to chase them often now there'll be an investigation 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.560 by the police into their own conduct, saying was it 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.200 dangerous to pursue this car the way in which they did? 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.120 But either way, I don't know what speeds these cars 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.599 were going at, but certainly they caused extensive damage to 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.680 this caren sure. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.520 I'll be interested to see what was behind all of that. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.640 Campaign groups and charities say that they are going to 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.080 look at legal challenges to the announcement that the UK 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:50.200 is going to begin returning migrants who are arriving in 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.480 small boats back to France. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.640 Yes, controversial this, but to put some context in it, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.240 since twenty eighteen when a figures began to beget that 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.880 more than one hundred and seventy thousand people have arrived 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.880 in the UK on small boats illegally, and numbers this 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.240 year in the first six months of the year was 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:14.040 over roughly twenty thousand, and that's fifty percent up on 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.320 the previous year. So it's there and it's getting worse, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.479 and this government's successive government's been unable to find a 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.960 way to stop it. What has been agreed with France 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.880 is that we will now do a so called one in, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.960 one out deal. So that's when we will give back 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.320 to France one of the asylum seekers who has arrived 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.520 or one of the sorry, one of those who has 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:42.280 arrived on small boats illegally, but in return the UK 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.599 will then take one person who is an asylum seeker 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.839 subject to security checks, who is in France, but crucially 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.839 not an asylum seeker who has tried to make the 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.880 crossing illegally. The reason I said crucially is because they 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.000 are hoping this scheme will actors and a terrant but 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.560 let me stress thre thousands acrossing a week and SJ 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.480 it's thought this scheme could see fifty people a week 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.240 being returned and that's what the critics are up in 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.360 arms saying it doesn't do enough. And also some are 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.760 saying this is a ridiculous scheme because we're now having 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:23.560 to accept people legally that are here illegally if you'd 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.200 like or would be coming illegally. So it was heralded 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.040 with a big, big press conference by the French President 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.360 Emmanuel Macron and our Prime Minister se Kirstama. But the 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:41.040 charities and groups representing migrants are all over this saying no, no, no. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.360 This is illegal. You can't do this. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.800 It breaks these various conventions and we are going now 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:50.080 to take this to court. And the Refugee Council says 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.280 it's right for the government here to look at ways 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.760 of targeting the smugglers business model, because of course people 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.720 smugglers get all these people in others. Another charity, Asylum 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.720 Matter that says this is an expensive, ineffective and dangerous 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.880 gimmick and it's incredibly simple. The only way to stop 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.240 this making the only way to stop this is to 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.040 give safe routes for people to seek sanctuary. But well, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.480 this is going to be a tough test for the 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.360 government because this is a big vote loser or vote winner. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.040 To Sweden now where that country is. Migration Minister Johann 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.720 FCel has said that he shocked and horrified after learning 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:33.240 that his teenage son was involved with violent far right 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:34.760 white supremacist groups. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.880 Yes, this is a big, big headline for Sweden, and 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.760 the Swedish papers are full of it. This weekend, basically 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:48.760 a sort of anti racism watchdog group called Expo announced 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.360 that there was a close relative of a government minister 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.240 that had collaborated with a member of a neo Nazi 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.520 group called the Nordic Resistance Movement. Now according to the 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.440 watch dog, it said that relative had been involved with 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.240 two other extremist groups, allegedly recruiting members into one of them. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.680 But we didn't know who the member of parliament or 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.160 the cabinet member was. Now we know it is none 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:19.319 other than the migration minister's son, who is sixteen. Johann 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.360 Forsall has confirmed that now he is the migration minister, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.280 and he said he did not know about his son's 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.280 activities until he was contacted by the country's security service 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.040 a few weeks ago, and that he had followed all 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:39.320 proper protocol. He says he won't be resigning, and he's 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.840 been openly critical of political extremism and an advocate of 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:49.400 greater parental responsibility when it comes to youth crime. So 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.200 he hasn't directly addressed this with his son. Of course, 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.960 it is very difficult. He's both a parent but he's 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.080 also a politician. But he said that he and his 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.559 wife had had long, important conversations with their son, who's 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.920 now cut off contact with this group, and is deeply remorseful, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.680 but it's something that Sweden is very aware about, with 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.199 a spike in gun and drug cran which has been 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.440 fueled by migration I think into Sweden. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:23.000 Four people, including three teenagers, have been arrested by police 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:28.840 who were investigating those cyber attacks that hit Harold's, emin S, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.760 Marks and Spencer's and the car Op group. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.760 Yes, so big retailers here in the UK have been 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.160 having a tough time of it because of course of 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.720 the Internet sweeping up with shopping, but even more here 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.079 in the UK with a number of hacks into their system, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.240 and it has taken down some big names. As you 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.640 mentioned Harrod's one of the most luxurious stores in the UK, 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.400 but also Marks and Spencer well, a very very popular 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.400 retail here, very similar to one of your chains over 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.439 there I think as well, where you know, high end 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:06.000 sort of the retail and it was hacked, meaning all 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.120 their online Internet shopping was basically having to be put 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.720 on hold. It was costing the company tens of millions 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:17.400 of pounds. Indeed, Martin Spencer's chairman said to the MPs 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.800 this week it had lost six sorry three hundred million 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.920 pounds in lost profits already and now we discover that 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.480 a twenty year old woman from the Midlands and three 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.880 males aged between seventeen and nineteen had been detained in 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.679 London and the West Midlands, arrested on suspicion of computer 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:44.480 misuse offenses, black mail, money laundering and participating in the 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.240 activities of an organized crime group. All arrested in the 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.520 early hours of Thursday. Now we discover that the electronic 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.800 devices that they had seized are being investigated by police. 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.000 All are from the UK, with the exception. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:03.120 Of the nineteen year old who's from Latvia, and dozens 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:08.000 of officers wearing balaclavas smashing their way into a family 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.720 home on one occasion and taking these electronic devices away 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:18.520 and obviously now questioning underway. But some retailers very very 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:24.120 pleased and relieved. If this group is the group behind 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:24.760 what's been. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.120 Going on, I don't know how I feel about this 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.080 next story, Gavin. I've had conversations on this show before 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:39.920 with the owner of a online luxury shopping website here 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:46.120 called Luxety, where essentially people sell second hand designer goods, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.760 and often those secondhand designer goods are things like burkin bags, 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.080 which we know. It's like the Kardashians have them, and 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.440 very very wealthy people and apparently you have to be 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.320 on a list to get the latest edition of the bag, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:04.520 and blahod blood blah, the original Burken bag has been sold. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.480 Can this be right? Seven point four million? 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.560 I'm afraid it is, which of course means one hundred 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.719 and fifty million South African. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:25.560 World I absolutely start raving crazy than a cut snake 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:26.720 box of frogs. Mad. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.080 And I know, having of course met you back in 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.360 Cape Town, that you and I are two of the 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.160 most fashionable people. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:40.280 Right, yeah, true, I wish you could say wearing now Gavin, 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:42.079 me too. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.120 Yeah, I'm not a big fan of these very expensive 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.400 fashion things. I suppose you can't stop people, but it 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.200 seems extraordinary with so much poverty around the world. And incidentally, 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.960 Live Aid and band Aids celebrating forty years pumping hundreds 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.800 of millions into trying to feed people around the world. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.319 So a poignant thing to say, I suppose. But anyway, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:09.559 back to the story. So Jane Berkin, a French British 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.439 singer in nineteen eighty five, was on a flight and 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.600 sitting next to her was the boss of the luxury 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:21.240 fashion house Hermes. Now Jane Berkin tried to get I'm 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:22.160 going to I'm going. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.520 To have to correct you there, Gavin heermez Hermez. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.200 I beg your pardon it, I beg your father Sarah Jane. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.720 To carry out right of course, Yes, Hermes is yeah, yeah, 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:36.840 that's that anyway. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:39.840 And the Guildford that's the Guildford version. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.480 Yeah, that's my version. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.720 She was on on this aeroplane next to the boss 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.080 of that company and try to get something out of 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.080 a bag, and all her contents spilled out over the floor, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.320 and she complained and said, why on earth don't you 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.480 people make a bag that's big enough for what women want, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.440 which ne to be practical but highly desirable. Well, it 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.400 became one of the most coveted accessories in fashion history. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.440 When they then made the burke In bag. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.040 Incidentally, the boss of the fashion house sketched out the 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.120 design on the aeroplane sick bag that was in the 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.280 seat hocket in front of him. So it is quite 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.280 a lovely story. But these bags go for an enormous 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:28.160 amount of money, and this one that sold in Paris 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.400 to a collector of private collector from Japan went for 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:37.119 seven point four million pounds, and that was almost twenty 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:41.800 times the previous records sale. The auction house described it 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:46.680 as an electrifying ten minute bidding war between nine determined collectors. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.760 I didn't see your name or my name on there, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.640 but that of course is you know, you got fees. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.000 And commission to pay as well. Southeby's did not publish 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.760 a pre auction estimate. But yeah, it's a lovely story, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.200 but gosh, really for a bag, what it's going to 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:08.200 sit behind a glass cabinet or something? Now? Yeah, so yeah, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.320 I quite agree in two minds about this story. But 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.200 you're never going to be able to stop people spending 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.840 money the way they want to, and indeed they. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.040 Should be allowed to spend it. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.000 But I do hope they are charitable people as well. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.200 I was just thinking that, I mean, it's it's a 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.600 level of money. If you've got that amount of money 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.120 to spend on as you say something that, I mean, no, 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.120 they're not going to use that bag, are they. It'd 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.280 be ridiculous. It's going to sit in a glass case 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.800 in your house presumably. If that, If you've got that 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.640 much money for an object that's going to do nothing, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.640 it makes me think that you've got I mean billions, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.240 billions and billions and billions, and the hope is that 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.680 of those billions and billions and billions that somebody has 0:16:54.200 --> 0:17:00.480 some of it goes towards charitable you know, causes, because 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:05.440 in any other event the world has gone completely mad, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.800 it has to be that. It can't be that you're 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.440 now sitting there going, oh, well, we've got a lovely bag, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.760 but we you know, we live in a cardboard box. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.760 I mean, that's that's not what's happening, is that this 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.040 is billionaires who, as we say, we hope that they 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.160 are owners of companies who do a lot for charity 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.400 and sustainability and social responsibility, and this is just one 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.680 of their one of their frivolities, one of their things. Otherwise, 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.000 I don't really know what to make of it. And 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:40.520 we're off to the airport. Now, airport noises particularly tell me, yes, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:41.800 a bizarre story. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.680 This he throw has been in the news, the biggest 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.080 airport in the UK, just outside of London, of course, 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.160 been in the news for lots of bad reasons lately, 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.200 including where I had to shut for a day because 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.959 of an electricity outage. Not its fault, but you know, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.639 it was all bad news for them, and I don't know. 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:07.040 This press release was just and is just bizarre. So 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.560 of course when you're going through the airport, there are 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.960 lots of different noises. There are of course announcements, there's 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.760 the escalators and lifts, there's the baggage belts, there's the 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.760 hubbub of people and rushed footsteps of people run across 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.880 the tild floor trying to make their flight. But now 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.760 the biggest flight hub here in the UK plans to 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.520 make the experience even more realistic by playing a. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.440 Looped soundtrack of an airport. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.159 It's called Music for Heathrow and it is designed to 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:45.440 help kickstart passengers holidays by quote reflecting excitement and anticipation. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.840 So yes, so you get your normal hubbub of the 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.760 airport and they're going to add to that by using 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.639 this soundtrack, which is going to be looped seamlessly and 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:04.919 play throughout the airport's terminals this summer. Now they have 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:11.680 invited a Grammy nominee musician, multi instrumentalist and producer, Jordan 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.760 Rakei to create the soundtrack and it's the first ever 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.920 created entirely with the sounds of an airport. The Heathrow 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.520 saying The track will also feature sounds from famous movie scenes, 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.600 including passengers tapping their feet in bend It like Beckham, 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.440 and the beeps of a security scanner from Love. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:31.040 Actually. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.880 It's conceived as a tribute to Brian ENO's album called 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.680 Music for Airports nineteen seventy nine, which is really seen 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.880 as the big moment the growth in ambient music tracks, 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.360 a genre that's supposed to calm listeners while also being 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.800 easy to ignore. This story has not been easy for 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.960 me to ignore because I'm just wondering how much money 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:54.600 it's costing. 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:59.880 I just don't really understand. Is this art? I don't art? 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.320 Is everything well, this is what I asked the question, 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.399 because everything's on these days. I simply cannot imagine the sounds. 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.159 Imagine why you need to pipe the sounds of an 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:15.399 airport into an airport. There's something that I'm that I'm 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.879 I'm missing here. Yeah, and I wonder. 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.080 I hope go on, I hope during the announcement s J. 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:27.119 There isn't one announcement saying with Sarah J. Mccuala ke, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.680 please head for them. 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.560 I will because I'm always rushing. I tell you what, Heathrow, 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:40.359 I get so lured into usually boots clicks for those 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.360 who for the South Africans, I get so lured by 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:49.040 you know, hand creams and nonsense that inevitably I am rushing, 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.520 rushing for the gate. But I don't know. I'm okay, 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.720 I'm going to see if I can find this online 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:57.800 and see if we can maybe sort of download a 0:20:57.840 --> 0:20:59.879 little bit of and and play it and and have 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.720 people hear what it's all about. Because this, as you 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.560 say this, I think the person who commissioned this is 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:07.560 the same person that spent ten million dollars on a 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:12.199 Burke second down birken bag. It's the same level of 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.200 goes under the category of total waste of money, which you, Gavin, 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:16.560 are not. 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:18.640 Wouldn't that be a great story if it was. 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.040 The same point, I know, that would be so good Gg. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.640 Thanks very much. Indeed, we'll chat to you again next week. 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:26.320 Gavin Gray with the UK Report for US this morning.