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on the television and watching it but i feel like i have seen the whole thing because it has been everywhere. no, i have not yet seen it but i think i am looking forward to it because of the intrigue, i suppose. i watched the first episode, half professionally, half as a viewer, but our colleague, royal correspondent, watch all three episodes simultaneously, 100% as a professional. i was binge watching harry and meghan. three of them dropped at 8am this morning and then... you want the radio talking about it at 8:20am. dashing out to talk about it and then watch more and trying to get the news lines out of it but also let yourself get into it because as you say if you watch it to try and dig out newslines you never understand it properly so it was a curious morning. wasn't refreshing at 8.00am? fra ntically, frantically. asking friends how does this work

this computer thing? to decode what is going on is our culture editor katie russell. i went to the turner prize and did not have more than one glass of wine and i knew that at 8am i would have to be back up in liverpool watching back—to—back episodes of this. you can't not watch if you are the editor, but 8am is a dodgy time to watch television in my view. you have not had a day off in a while. at 8am you are asleep. must have a little flavour of one of the episodes. you are late. the taxing saying he was in traffic. i was freaking out. i was sweating. i thought, is this what he does? this is i am not doing.

you have so much of an ego that any girl would sit around and wait a half—hour for you and i was not interested in that. and then when i walked in a hot, sweaty ball of mess... most of episode one it seems to be the harry and meghan love story like their dinners together and there was not as much about the royal family as i was expecting. not in episode one and there was surprisingly little about the royal family in any of the three episodes and obviously that is woven through the story but if you are waiting for that bombshell about either the relationship with the institution or the relationship with the relations then you have got a long time to wait. what is running through the episode is harry's deep dislike of the media but he has talked about that before,

meghan�*s reaction to when she is talked about as harry's girlfriend and the swarming of the paparazzi by the photographers and i think what is clear is the way that they bond over the dislike of the press and the media. and they are saying all of this at the centre of this global event, these programmes dropping at once and headlines around the world and all of that. it is curious. a lot of people would like to have that and what of the reason that they left the working side of the royal family is so they can get that control because in the royalfamily there is an agreed way of dealing with the media which is something both of them have railed about before, which is a fairly dreary set of organisation and instructions about how royal coverage is organised. so, they have moved out of that and the media was one

of the reasons that they left, and now they have decided they want to tell their story in their way. this is a very one—sided documentary. it is their story, told by them and their friends and their friends can't stop telling you how utterly wonderful they are, in particularly meghan. i was going to ask you as culture editor, would you classify this as a documentary, but we would call it a handout, when a company or somebody gives you a nicely polished video of how they would like you to present them but not necessarily the way we would present them as impartialjournalists. you are right. netflix is calling it a documentary but i don't think it is strictly a documentary. i would call it a programme. not a bad programme but a programme. as a johnny says it is one—sided, of course it is. it is their truth. it has got their friends in it, people who agree with their views in it. documentaries in a stricter sense do have to have a sort

of slightly less partial take. you do have to get the feeling that you are being given the whole truth if you can, and certainly that is not how this programme comes across. it is slick. it is a piece of pr, if you like, like a handout. that does not mean it is not good tv. is it any good? did you enjoy it? who enjoys watching something like that sam, number one. obviously, i am giving things away, but if you had turned it on because you had seen the trailers and he thought, "ok, we're going to get some really good dirt here." or if you remember about the trailers, harry is talking about a dirty game, the war against meghan to suit other's agendas and this is about race and clearly race does come up in these programmes but you don't get individuals named, you don't... so, if you were on for that

because you had watch the trailers, you'd be disappointed. having said that it does get a bit repetitive at times. i think they come across engaging, really well. no surprise there as it is a documentary made in association with their company but it is intriguing to see the back story to their relationship. are they the first royal couple ever to meet on social media? they met on instagram. we see the footage. it is slickly produced. you have got the devices when they are texting each other, or whatsapp, the messages come up on the screen. those art devices were used to seeing. there are various cliffhangers along the way, things that i said that you think, "oh, maybe we will learn more about that in the next volume as they are grandiosely called. things like when he talks about his time in africa when he was 18. he was troubled, his mother had died. he goes to africa and he talks about how he uses this phrase, i can't remember it —

but he uses a phrase about how he did not get the support he needed after his mother died and talked about a second family in africa who effectively brought him up and you can't help but think is that a dig at prince charles? what was his father doing at the time? or when meghan talks about meeting william and kate for the first time and she says i am a hugger but the british, they find that formality... they are so formal they find it jarring and you think, "what happened there? " was that the start of the disaster, the breakdown of their relationship? there are cliffhangers that drama does very well, that well—told narrative programmes do well, to keep the interest. there is an extraordinary bit where there was home video footage on the phone or something of them holding up archie who is little at this point and he is basically

touching a picture of princess diana on the wall. that is really moving. but it is extraordinary because this is a couple that have spent three hours saying they don't like their privacy invaded and then you see this private moment they are putting out to subscribers. that is their choice though. i think you can say i want my privacy but on my own terms and this is what i am willing to share with you in the context of me having control over it. interesting what the word privacy actually means. back to the journalistic thing, injournalism, if you make claims about somebody we would go to that person and get their response and included in thejournalism, even if they said that we were wrong. what is going on here because the programme starts with a slate which says, "we approached the royal comment and they did not reply." there is a bit of argy—bargy about this. i spoke to someone from kensington palace which is the residence of the princess of wales. i spoke to them yesterday and said by the way did they come to you? did netflix come to you for right

of reply and they said no. and then this statement comes up saying, "we approached buckingham palace and the royal family did not reply." right at the start! they did not reply. again the line came out from buckingham palace later, "no, we did not get approached." then, subsequently came another statement saying, "well, what happened was for kensington palace and buckingham palace that they got an e—mail from what they described as a third—party production company which had nothing to do with netflix or archwell, saying that you want to reply?" they then got in touch with netflix and said, "you know, is this something to do with you?" they got they said no reply from either of them and that was that. so, it is a slightly complicated tale but essentially if you are making this kind of story and you are a journalist you make every single effort you can to get right of reply, to get the other side. you don't send one e—mail and leave it at that because these are quite important claims about the palace failing to defend meghan

about the relationship between the cambridge�*s and the sussexes, and as i say, journalistic league you make more than one e—mail. especially if you slap it at the start. by the way, just to add to that — my sources at netflix say this is not right and that actually every effort was made to contact the palace, and they knew they had been contacted, for what it is worth. very interesting. an impossible question, but it is worth mulling over — what could happen next? we wait to find out. what is fascinating for people like me who watch this and think about the institutional side of this is how much more there really is, because we have heard the criticisms of the media, we have had some of the criticisms of the institution. we have heard the interview

with harry where he essentially says that he was mucked up by his parents and they were mucked up by their parents before them. you just wonder how much more there is to be mined from a relatively limited time when both of them were working members of the royal family, and from harry's pain as well. i mean, i don't want to bang on about it but harry has had a really rough time and he spends an awful lot of time talking about it publicly. at some point you'd think he was going to say, ok, enough, let's move on. the question for those who care about that kind of thing is what the sea then move onto because so much of his post—royal family life has been mulling and talking about the last few years. also, i suppose how much will we continue to care after a six part series and a book. that is kind of the moment, isn't it, when you think you have said everything you need to say so you better get on with something else, and what is that something else? well, maybe they will release it

in the afternoon at least. maybe the netflix bosses in silicon valley are listening. please respond. we got it at 8am but they were getting it at midnight if you live in new york. has anyone seen lindsay lohan�*s comeback christmas film on netflix? not yet. terrible reviews. i love it. go against the grain. i was excited to see that lady chatterley's that lady chatterley's lover is on netflix. that is too raunchy to watch at 8am in the morning. i think you are right about that one. thank you. one of the other stories our colleagues have been working on is about health, and it is about how long it has taken for people to go from accident and emergency onto a ward if they need a hospital bed, and the bbc found through lots of research than more than 40% of people are having to wait more than four hours for that

process which is breaching the government target, so that has been a big story today and we thought that would give us an opportunity to talk about life in hospital at the moment and be joined by doctor maddock in brighton and she is vice president at the college of emergency medicine and a consultant in the emergency department. thank you for having me. thank you for coming on. it does not sound like a great time to get ill at the moment. unfortunately it's been like this in the emergency department for a very, very long time. we are certainly seeing the winter starting to kick off and so there is a lot more illness around. but unfortunately the state of emergency departments has been like this for years now and we have been calling for more support through staffing, through more beds, more social care, unfortunately we have not seen any results. so that is why the state is as it is, as you've just declared. it is no longer really four hours. patients are waiting over 12 hours,

or well over a day in the emergency department and that is unacceptable. on the radio this morning there are several new medical schools are about to come on stream that were commissioned by theresa may a few years ago, so they're ready to go now. in the autumn statement one of the surprises in the autumn statement from the chancellor was billions of extra pounds for the nhs over the next two years, which people weren't expecting and also borisjohnson�*s signature pledge was tens of thousands of extra nurses. you're making it sound like all of our dreams have been made true! it has not amounted to anything, has it? because if it did you wouldn't be seeing the problem you did today. yes, there are plans for medical schools, it takes a long time to train a medical student to become a doctor and then they have got to go through the training. it's not as simple as that. we need senior decision—makers and it takes years to get that on board. into this dire situation that you paint, then we have the strikes where your colleagues will be walking out and seemingly making

a bad situation worse? well, i have to say that the royal college is not a union. we can't comment on terms and conditions, but what i can say is that imagine how bad things have got to be in order for a nurse, or a paramedic to strike? that's got to be pretty bad. because these guys don't strike. these guys are so committed to patient care and to keeping their patients safe, they're dedicated and hard working, but we recognise they're overstretched, there are fewer of them than there were before and so therefore they're getting burnt out quickly and we are worried about retaining staff. they're leaving more than they're joining and that is a real problem. we are about to get

into christmas party season. we know from the documentaries about accident and emergency, christmas party season is important with people getting drunk and injured, could that tip it over the edge? no. you have totally missed it, that is not it at all. it sounds like, like we are at the tipping point where the system is teetering and what could be the straw that breaks the camel's back? i don't think that will. i think what breaks the camel's back will be deaths. unfortunately, we already have evidence to show that if patients are waiting for more than eight to 12 hours in the emergency department, their mortality rate goes up within 30 days. and we already have that evidence, we have shown that to the government since earlier this year. it does not seem to have touched anyone. 0k.

if that gets worse, that will break us. i talked about those documentaries about seeing a fly on the wall in the department but could you paint a picture about what will it be like in your emergency department tonight, on thursday night? what does it feel or sound like? what are the emotions and stress levels like? so, i think scared. that is one picture. we have had frail patients who have been shaking, literally trembling and you have gone over to ask them, are you ok? and they have responded, i am frightened. the reason why this lady was frightened was because she was in a corridor full of patients and there are departments that can hold up to 38 trolleys in their corridor. how do i know that? it has happened. if you canjust picture this — trolleys in front of trolleys. and imagine the person in the back trolley having a cardiac arrest

or becoming unwell. doctors and nurses needing to get to emergency. they have to pull other trolleys out of the way. it is utter chaos. there is no space to lie these patients and that is why trusts have to hold ambulances because it is not safe to keep them in crowded departments and that is having a significant impact on the ambulance trusts i who are unable to get back into the community. it is a terrible knock—on effect. if you can imagine working in an office, you have space. you have light. natural light. you have refreshments, things you need. and imagine my working day, which is utter chaos. it is, people everywhere lying on trolleys, sitting on the floor, standing in the corner. there is no call bell for anybody in the corridor to call for patient help. people relying on nurses to pick up on the signals. and they can.

and they continue to pick up on the signals but it is not safe to leave things like that. and we are at the point where we cannot stress enough, we really do need more money injected into social care immediately to try to alleviate the pressure of the hospitals. you paint a vivid picture of what it must be like of the thing that leapt out to me, on a brain level, as all of the hospitals calculating how much space there is in the corridors because those corridors have become an integral part of the hospital and notjust the way you get from emergency to the ward. it has become part of the treatment space. yes, it should not be. it should not be a clinical space, it is not, there are no sinks. you cannot get refreshments and there is no call bell. certainly no privacy or dignity or confidentiality. which is terrible.

as clinicians and for nurses, porters who work in that environment. it is very difficult. we didn't really sign up for that but we have to do whatever we can to keep patients safe and that is why things like the four— hour standard at the moment don't mean anything. you're just trying to keep the patients safe and that is what i tell myjuniors every day. keep the patient safe and make sure you are ok as well and the staff are well supported. that is all we can do at the moment. thank you very much and good luck coping with this difficult situation over the next couple of months. thank you very much. there will be even more strikes, the pcs union who represent border force staff at six british airports say they will go on strike before christmas, during christmas and after christmas and during new year and if you add that to the train strikes, you have a lot of travel disruption. so the person i call when i want to know if i can go

on holiday is simon calder from the independent. hello. my goodness! merry christmas! i desperately want everybody to have a lovely holiday but i'm afraid, having four weeks, i thought, the train strikes will be settled and the pcs dispute will probably go away also and it will be fine, but i have to say it looks like everything is going ahead and i am very sorry to say that on the trains, millions will have theirjourney plans torn up. in the skies it remains to be seen. when i was looking at the newspapers on thursday morning after this news broke on wednesday night about border force, i was thinking it might not be that bad because lots of people will be leaving the country and you don't see a border force person when you leave. but i then thought, hang on, it is all a big conveyor belt and that is not how it works? that is how to look at it. the busiest days, for heathrow in terms of arrivals,

the first day of the strike, the 23rd of december. friday. one of the busiest days of the winter anyway. so, you have all of the arrivals which start before 5am and by seven or eight you have had dozens and dozens of wide—bodied planes turning up. all of this people need to be processed, many are not uk or eu or us citizens and they need to be spoken to. and you know what the arrivals halls are like at heathrow, very often even in normal times they are not big enough. so you cannot allow more people there so therefore the planes, the people stay on the plains. you have already been on a plane for 14 hours and nowjust sit here for another couple of hours. that also means that the plane cannot be refuelled and have new passengers and baggage put on board. therefore the departing passengers are now bunching up and it all gets very messy. there are no gates left for arriving

planes because they are filled with planes that should have gone two hours ago and you get diversions, cancellations and everything which is why the government is saying it could be severe disruption and why manchester airport is saying there will be cancellations because they want the airlines to put in proactive cancellations to reduce the stress on the system. just in terms of flights, are you able to go to your airline and say i don't want to wait for the text, just cancel it for me now. no, you can't, the airlines will not be sympathetic. they will say, as far as we're concerned, everything is going to go ahead, before i came to talk to you jet jet2 said we are going to run all of our flights, i'm not sure if manchester airport would agree, but that is what they said. there is no way any airline or holiday company is going to allow you to say ok, we will cancel.

to turn it around, if your flight is one of the ones selected for filletting or culling or whatever you want to call it, it's taken out of the schedule so other flights can run, immediately the air passenger rules kick in and they must offer an alternative flight, even if that means they have to buy your ticket on a rival airline to get you to your destination, and the trouble is it is christmas and are not many seats available. bah humbug! once on the podcast your family were going through immigration at the airport while you were talking to us. is your family grounded this christmas? luckily, yes. not for any great reason except that london is a fantastic place to be over christmas and new year, but i am trying to get to gatwick on the first day of the new year, rail strikes on the 3rd ofjanuary. to fly off on an important working trip to the red sea. myself and chris will fly to our homes! hopefully you will come back to newscast when we

publish another episode. thank you. we will be back with another episode very soon. goodbye! good evening. friday brought us another bitterly cold day after a sharp frost to start. we had some snow showers around and that's going to be very much the story into the weekend. staying very cold. icy stretches for many of us. further snow showers in places and lingering freezing fog. we're seeing that freezing fog already forming. it's going to become more extensive tonight for the east midlands, particularly east anglia, up towards the vale of york. more heavy snow showers and icy conditions across the north and north—east of scotland. ice also likely around some of these irish sea coast with showers for northern ireland down towards the south west of england too. temperatures as low

as about —5 or —6 even in some of our towns and cities, but even colder than that for a few rural spots. so a bitterly cold start to saturday morning for scotland. there's that lingering snow, perhaps just rain close to the coast for aberdeenshire, for instance. some early sunshine for southern scotland, perhaps northern ireland, as well, but ice certainly a risk here. there are those showers pushing in towards manchester, the west pennines, for instance, and some showers for the higher ground of wales and south—west england. could be a couple of centimetres of snow accumulating for bodmin and exmoor, for instance. that lingering freezing fog will be really quite slow to clear in the east of england. could be the odd patch elsewhere too. so if you do see that fog sticking around all day, then temperatures will struggle to get above freezing. most of us typically about three or four degrees. i think the mildest weather down towards the far south—west. overnight saturday into sunday, another very cold night. again, freezing fog for much of england and wales. some snow showers, especially for parts of eastern scotland, perhaps into north—east england, as well. so subzero temperatures once again to start your sunday morning,

a sharp frost and that lingering freezing fog could be very slow to clear. now, low pressure is with us at the moment, but it's a very slack area of low pressure, not many isobars on the map, not enough wind to drive it through. we have got the breeze coming in from the north or north—east and that will bring that cold air mass. once again, snow showers for north—east scotland, some of them perhaps pushing into the far north—east of england. later in the day the potential for this area of rain in the english channel to increasingly turn to sleet and snow as it may move into south—east england, the london region and east anglia. but freezing fog once again, temperatures only a degree or two above freezing for many of us through the day on sunday. do watch out for that potential for some snowfall in the south—east. temperatures still well below freezing into next week. bye— bye.

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