generation, they could rule the world. yeah, yeah, yeah this is beetle land, formerly known as britain. an epidemic called beetle manaea seized the teenage population, especially female. cbs does a story on what they think is a goofy band from england doing quite well. these four boys from liverpool with their hairstyles are britain s latest musical and in fact sociological phenomenon. they symbolize the century as they make nonmusic and nonhaircuts give nonmercy. some little girl heard a hint of what the beatles were about and started calling her local dj. the local dj asked his friend to bring over a beatles record from england and has the vision to put it on and hear that there is something happening. so marcia albert of dublin drive of sul ver spring has the honor of introducing something brand new and exclusive here at wwdc. marcia, the microphone on the carol james show is yours. ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the aur in the united states, her
electric cars are not only good for the planet, but they re also good for our ears not that everyone minds. makes car revving noises but, of course, there is a problem if electric cars don t make a sound, you can t hear them coming. so, dan simmons has been driving a little bit slower than usual, it has to be said, to find out what might replace the sound of silence. if electric cars have to make a noise, well, we could end up with something like this. electronic music plays well, you wouldn t accidentally step out in front of it, would you? this is an art experiment to see how cars could interpret and complement the soundscape around them. more on that idea in a bit. but first, to get a feel of what the ev manufacturers themselves have in store for us, i ve come to japanese car giant nissan s technical development centre in bedfordshire. what do you think people expect an electric car to sound like? that was the interesting question that we started with what should a c
because none of us had really thought about it. itjust sounds like the engine. the leaf is one of the world s best selling electric cars and they now come with nissan s reimagined suite of sounds called canto. we wanted to be optimistic, a little bit futuristic, but not to pretend to be anything that the car wasn t. we didn t want to pretend to be a petrol engine and we ended up putting sort of three together and then melding sounds together and building from there a profile of different sounds that would work with the car. not all new leafs will sound the same. we re the first tv crew to be invited into nissan s top secret semi anechoic chamber, and paul s the man in charge of testing the sounds and tweaking them to different markets. because it turns out, different countries have different ideas of what good quality sounds like. in europe, we attribute quality with a more sort of solid feel, sort of more like a low frequency content, like a solid closing of an oak door is a
lu kewsa burak. we ll be taking a look at tomorrow morning s papers in a moment. first the headlines. pre departure tests will be required for all arrivals into the uk from tuesday to stop the spread of the omicron variant as nigeria becomes the latest country to be added to the travel red list. thousands of homes in scotland and northern england begin a second weekend without power after storm arwen. the parents of a teenager suspected of a deadly school shooting have pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter after they were found hiding in a basement at least one person has been killed and dozens injured after a volcano erupts on the indonesian island of java. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author and journalist yasmin alibhai brown and the director of communications at the free market think tank, the institute of economics affairs, annabel denham. let s take a first look at some of tomorrow s fro
good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s prepping for a hard day s night. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, october 12th. we ll start with the news. almost a year after america led joe biden out of covid t president may have hit a wall, troubling scenes at the southern border and a delta variant surge. the president s ratings have tumbled from the low 50s in february to the high 30s in a recent quinnipiac poll. strategists are reporting a common trend to politico. they write in part, quote, reports from leading party operatives all point to biden needing to get a handle on the virus to claw his way out of the muddle. in a focus last week, pennsylvania democrats one after another articulated the issue vexing top white house officials. all nine participants gave bide an c-minus grade or lower. it circled back to the pandemic and the many ways it continues to hinder normal life, souring their views on biden. to be clear, many of the setbacks from biden ste