2022 in review, Part II: The King, 3 PMs and a failed president
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Emily, Jon and Lewis review 2022; at home and abroad.
You know about the prime ministers and the monarchs and the presidents, but what’s going on beneath the headlines this year? The News Agents discuss a realignment in politics over the course of the last six months and ask if a new normalisation is here to stay. Does anything about how this year is ending presage what is to come in 2023?
Plus - listener questions and some more special 'guest' appearances.
Socials: Georgia Foxwell
Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Production: Gabriel Radus
Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | Previously on the Newsagents, the year in review. |
| 0:16.2 | If you were listening to us about this time last week, you will have heard us take on 2022 in our own |
| 0:22.8 | inimitable style, a mixture of deep thought and frivolous scrabble. |
| 0:29.5 | Can I just ask at what point did you start doing all the sound effects? |
| 0:32.4 | I mean, do we not have someone for that? |
| 0:33.9 | All the music, all the sound effects. |
| 0:36.2 | People have had to go through Christmas listening |
| 0:37.9 | to Maitlis do the final countdown. Honestly. It's only lucky to get to next Christmas. We should have |
| 0:41.6 | sound effects as well. This might be the last chance you get to hear me before Vegas. |
| 0:46.3 | You're going to work in one of the casino, right? Yes. Crew Pierre. Crew Pierre. |
| 0:50.3 | Maitlis. I'm going to jump in now because I fear you're about to start singing. So welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:00.0 | The newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And it's Lewis. And we're now going to tell the story of how the newsagents... |
| 1:07.5 | That sounded like you were about to start to sing. I'm not. This is not operetta, folks. |
| 1:11.0 | Okay. |
| 1:11.4 | How the news agents came on air. |
| 1:13.3 | Because we were going to come on air, I think, in early September. |
| 1:16.3 | And then we heard there was this Tory leadership thing happening |
| 1:19.4 | and that we were going to get the result in early September. |
| 1:22.4 | And we didn't want to be launching our podcast on the same day that the Tory leadership result was announced. So we |
| 1:29.3 | brought it forward a week. We brought the whole thing forward so that we could calmly sail into |
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