Will vaccines end lockdown by mid-Feb? Plus top photographer on capturing history
Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast
ITV News
4.2 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode we look at whether coronavirus vaccines can help England out of lockdown by mid-February, as Boris Johnson hopes will be the case.
Our special guest is award winning PA photographer Stefan Rousseau, who talks us through what it's been like capturing some recent histories most remarkable moments.
In one anecdote he reveals his experience of photographing the Westminster terror attack, which resulted in two people being killed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Calling Peston in our first episode of 2021. |
| 0:08.0 | It seems we've entered the new year in a similar way to how we ended the last with more chaos |
| 0:12.6 | and uncertainty. |
| 0:13.6 | But one thing that is for sure is that the Calling Peston team will be with you by your |
| 0:17.6 | side and in your ears taking you through every twist and turn. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm your host for the day, Sheeb Khan, and I'll be calling ITV's political editor Robert Peston |
| 0:26.7 | to get his thoughts and analysis on lockdowns, vaccine, and of course the incredible scenes |
| 0:31.9 | with witness in the United States. |
| 0:34.5 | We'll also be talking to Stefan Russo, an award-winning political photographer for PA, |
| 0:39.0 | who's taken some of the most extraordinary picture, so please stay for that. Now, firstly, |
| 0:45.5 | welcome back. Happy New Year, Lewis. Yeah, happy New Year to you as well. It's good to hear your |
| 0:50.6 | voice. Yeah, no, it is. It's nice to be doing this again. Start the new year, as you mean to go on, so Dan's not with us because he's busy working on more important things. |
| 0:59.3 | So it's me and you. |
| 1:01.1 | How was your festive period? |
| 1:02.5 | Did you do anything particularly exciting or, like, the rest of us, frustrated it wasn't a normal Christmas? |
| 1:08.8 | No, same as everyone. |
| 1:10.5 | She had pretty bloody boring, to be honest. |
| 1:13.0 | But it was nice that, well, I mean, the pubs weren't open, which was bad, but the pubs |
| 1:18.0 | weren't open, which meant I didn't drink any alcohol, which meant I didn't feel hung over |
| 1:21.4 | at all through Christmas. |
| 1:23.3 | Which was always good, yeah? |
| 1:24.0 | That was the first. |
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