The Lockdown Sessions: Easyjet's CEO on summer holidays and electric planes
The boss of Easyjet, Johan Lundgren, sits down with the Evening Standard's Susannah Butter to explain how he thinks the UK's airlines can get off the ground again after nearly a year of pandemic restr...
17 Feb 202110min
Super-fast Covid tests to save entertainment, but will they work? And Framing Britney Spears reviewed
The government's hoping rapid coronavirus tests, being trialled at Porton Down, will allow Britain’s devastated entertainment and events industry to reopen in the summer. But our arts correspondent Ro...
16 Feb 202111min
The Covid mutation fear behind a “cautious but irreversible” route out of lockdown, and Meghan’s pregnancy announcement
Our political editor Joe Murphy tells us the government’s fears of a new, as yet unknown, coronavirus mutation are behind its “timid” approach to lifting lockdown. Despite pressure from some MPs in hi...
15 Feb 202112min
The Trump Impeachment: The Defence begins
The Democrats have rested their case against Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, now the defence begins. After three days of evidence, including the showing of emotive previously unseen foot...
12 Feb 20217min
Matt Hancock’s booked his summer holiday, should you?
Matt Hancock says he booked a summer holiday to Cornwall “months ago” but admits there’s “uncertainty” about whether he, or anyone else, will actually be able to make any trips. Our deputy political e...
11 Feb 20215min
Professor Green: on mental health, food banks and ‘tone deaf’ influencers in Dubai
Stephen Manderson, aka Professor Green, is a big advocate for opening up the conversation around mental health, having presented documentaries on everything from suicide to child poverty. On this epis...
10 Feb 202118min
Your complete Donald Trump impeachment trial guide
Democrats have set the stage for a historic battle in the Senate as Donald Trump faces allegations he “betrayed the American people” and is guilty of the “most grievous constitutional crime ever commi...
9 Feb 20219min
Can we have confidence in the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine?
The Evening Standard’s political editor Joe Murphy joins us to explain the concerns over the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says he says he has “every confidence” in the...
8 Feb 20218min
