4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Forget the election, this is the big political battle of the year. Part two of the Red Box podcast 2019 Quiz of the Year.
Will Patrick Kidd and Esther Webber make it four years in a row for the reporters' team? Can Daniel Finkelstein and Rachel Sylvester avoid the usual fate of the columnists coming last?
Can MP Tom Tugendhat remember the names of his own colleagues and can Angela Rayner remember why Boris Johnson last used the NHS?
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Manveen Rana, the host of the Stories of Our Times Podcast. |
0:07.2 | Did you know that if you're a Times subscriber, you can now access bonus episodes every week via Apple Podcasts, which bring you an exclusive |
0:16.3 | peek behind the scenes. |
0:18.5 | So if you have an iPhone, head to Apple.co. |
0:22.1 | forward slash stories of our times to connect your Times subscription. Oh, ho-ho, and welcome to part two of the Red Box Quiz of the Year. |
0:41.1 | I'm Matt Jolly going into part two. The schools look like this. of the Angela Rayna Aron 10, but currently in the lead the reporter to team Patrick Kidd and Esther Weber |
0:55.0 | are on 11. |
0:57.0 | So in July we had the Tory leadership contest when Jeremy Hunt went up against his cockney-Warming slang |
1:02.3 | Boris Johnson. The new Prime Minister |
1:04.6 | ended up being chosen by 160,000 Tory party members. Who on earth is still a Tory party |
1:09.0 | member? It's like still being on Friends of United or in Gary Glitter's fan club. Now Boris Johnson |
1:14.0 | moved to the Danny Street with his girlfriend Carrie Simmons who's been |
1:16.4 | nicknamed his first lady. Now I don't know who's going to break it to her but I |
1:20.2 | don't think she's his first. Within weeks, he'd made a woman sat from the cabinet |
1:24.9 | for holding secret meetings of a foreign government, |
1:26.6 | home secretary, and a man who didn't realize |
1:28.1 | how close France is to England foreign secretary. |
1:30.9 | He also unlawfully provoked parliament and threw away his majority in an afternoon. |
1:35.0 | Which brings us to... Round five of the quiz. It's called Rebel Rebel. I'm going to ask you a question |
1:49.7 | you'll take it in turns to give a correct answer. If you pass or get it wrong you lose a point and it goes on |
1:54.8 | to the next team. So what I want you to do is name the 21 Tory MPs who are expelled for |
2:00.3 | voting against the government on Brexit, something that of course |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Anna Covell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Anna Covell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.