Kirsty Wark

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319 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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Newscast · Andy Burnham's Emergency Cobra Meeting On Extreme Heat · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

No way.

Also, you know, a brilliant director, Paul Greengrass, made a really good film about the wildfires in California two years ago.

I can't remember the name of it, so sorry about that.

But it was about this incredible true story about a teacher and a driver who got these kids out.

And you saw the reality, and it was the reality, of how the bus windows burn.

I mean, they crack and they burn.

I mean, not being able to get kids out from schools is a massive thing.

So how do you create firebreaks around schools in the UK then?

How do you make sure that that kind of thing can happen?

the UK.

But in so many areas of the UK, smaller communities are dependent on what I think are absolute...

heroes and heroines which is volunteer fire service people you know who will go out and day and night it's like it's like mountain rescue who will go out to defend the community it's incredible

Well, you have to weigh it against the cost.

Andrew Burnham is going to be faced with a budget, isn't he, where he's going to go a little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

I mean, what's going to happen?

But the other thing about the fires that are across the UK now, particularly in farmland, is that it's like a lot of that ground.

Are they really going to be ready to put crops in in the autumn?

I mean, you just don't know what the implications are for food security.

Which I

will

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