HS2

This is a short 40 second voice piece I wrote for my Broadcast Journalism Assignment in January 2012. It was to be used in a mock up BBC Radio News Bulletin. I also recorded it using Software which I hope to upload shortly.



Script with Link and Out words

  A brand new controversial high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham has been approved by Government today. Our political correspondent, Dayna Farrington is outside the Houses of Common…

“Earlier today, members of the Houses of Commons approved the plans for HS2. The high speed rail line between London and Birmingham, aims to cut journey times by thirty-five minutes, on two-hundred and twenty-five mile per hour trains, taking an astonishing forty-nine minutes. The first phase is intended to be completed by two thousand and twenty-six, followed by a proposed second phases of a Y-shaped track reaching Manchester and Leeds by two thousand and thirty-three. The whole project will cost a massive thirty-two billion pounds. Transport secretary Justine Greening called the line ‘the most significant transport infrastructure project since the building of the motorways.’ Back to you in the studio.”

The plans for HS2 have caused protests across the country, mainly focusing on the areas that the railway line will run through, about how areas of natural beauty will be ruined. Our environmental editor, Hannah Ambrose reports live from Tamworth…