Will Chalk
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5,182 appearances
37 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3d ago
Will Chalk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sophie Broca, who's prefect of Gironde, says things are likely to get worse before they get better.
The newsroom's Janat Jalil gave me this update from Bordeaux.
It's a pretty desperate situation right now.
The wildfires are edging ever closer to the city of Bordeaux in this famous winemaking region at the height of the holiday season.
Despite the desperate efforts of more than 2,000 firefighters who are being helped by thousands of soldiers, police and volunteers, they still haven't been able to bring them under control.
They're also using firefighting aircraft, many of which have been loaned by neighbouring European countries.
But the battle is still going on and time is running out because temperatures are expected to rise again sharply on Tuesday.
And the mayor of Bordeaux is saying that the flames are now just 15 kilometres from the edge of the city.
But he's downplayed reports that the authorities are making contingency plans to evacuate it because that would be a massive challenge on top of the quarter of a million or so people who've been evacuated from villages, from towns and even from the western suburbs of Bordeaux.
Tourism is a crucial part of the local economy, but people with holiday plans are being told to stay away or, if they're already here, to leave as soon as they can.
Wherever you go in Bordeaux, you can just smell this really heavy, acrid smoke.
It's spread all over the city, all over the surrounding areas.
It's very hard to breathe.
There's this grey haze of ash particles and more than two million masks have been sent or are being sent to the region and people are being advised to wear them outside or stay indoors as much as they can.
What have local people said about the situation?
Well, I went to the main evacuation centre in Bordeaux, which is a huge complex with vast hangar-like halls where thousands of residents and tourists have taken shelter.
It can only hold about 10,000 people or so.
But for many of those people, this is just a temporary stop while they make plans to stay with relatives or if they're tourists to return home or go to another part of France.
I mostly saw poorer, older people, including many residents from care homes, who were very confused but were at least getting looked after by medical staff.
And some of the people I spoke to expressed concerns about their homes being looted while they were away.
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