Simon Calder
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81 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Aug
Simon Calder’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that hopefully will make life easier.
But there's also, in the rest of the world, there's very smart stuff going on.
But unfortunately, it doesn't always work perfectly.
And a 70-year-old lawyer from Milton Keynes was in Bali where they've got very effective e-gates, but it wouldn't let him through because he was wearing a T-shirt of David Bowie.
aged about 23, and the machine was fixated on David Bowie, not on this rather elderly gentleman.
But in general, look, things can only get better, as they say.
And that's not just passports.
It's also the security checks.
Before the passports, we're just coming up to the 20th anniversary of the supposedly short-term passports.
temporary liquid checks but in time we will just walk through a corridor and you won't even be aware that your cabin baggage is being screened.
Yeah, I mean, even at the departure gate, if the technology is working right, they'll say, yeah, you're booked on the half-past one flight to Malaga.
We've been expecting you.
Have a nice flight.
OK, great question.
And the thing is, it's happening fast and it's happening in sort of unexpected places.
And everybody's going at slightly different speeds, but there is going to be soon some kind of change.
international standards employed.
So I would say that in 10 years' time, if I'm lucky enough to be talking to you again, we will be just used to the idea that travel is an awful lot easier
involves an awful lot less friction.
And actually, if you get people through the airport more quickly, they have a nicer time.
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