US car production hit by semi-conductor shortage - a podcast by BBC World Service

Ford and General Motors will both curtail production from this week, as they struggle to cope with a shortage of semi-conductors which are used in technology like anti-lock brakes. We get the latest from Michelle Krebs, an executive analyst with Cox Automotive.
After several nights of violence in Belfast, will foreign investors be put off from Northern Ireland? We speak to Allison Morris of the Belfast Telegraph.
And we mark 60 years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completed the first manned space flight. Astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst explains the significance of this historic achievement.

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