210. Better Late Than Never
Where Politics Meets History
Global
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2020
⏱️ 110 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Living for your next getaway, nothing beats a vibe holiday. |
| 0:07.0 | You and your mates all in one place, chilling by the pool all day or partying all night in hotspots like Ibiza, Zanty and Cyprus. |
| 0:17.0 | Whatever your holiday vibe, book early from Birmingham Airport and lock in today's price with just a |
| 0:24.2 | 60 pounds deposit per person vibe by jet two holidays there now follows an apology on behalf of the For the Many podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | Listeners may have expected to have this podcast land in their phone yesterday, Saturday. |
| 0:49.8 | Unfortunately, due to the incompetence of one of the presenters, that did not happen. |
| 0:55.2 | The presenter in question is me, because I made a bit of an F up, didn't I? |
| 1:02.1 | You did, Ian. |
| 1:03.7 | I was tempted to create a WhatsApp group entitled, What the F is happening. |
| 1:10.7 | Somebody's already taken that one, which we'll come to in a bit. |
| 1:15.3 | Well, because, as you know, I had been booked to speak at various literary festivals around |
| 1:20.5 | the country, one of which was Chiswick in West London, which is over this weekend. |
| 1:25.3 | And anyway, they decided ages ago to cancel it. So I took it out of my |
| 1:29.3 | diary, but then they decided to do it online. So I did a, I was booked to do a conversation with |
| 1:36.6 | Torin Douglas, who I think runs the festival, used to be the BBC's media correspondent, and Hashi |
| 1:43.2 | Mohammed, who's written a book |
| 1:44.5 | called People Like Us. |
| 1:47.0 | Anyway, I forgot to put it in my diary. |
| 1:48.8 | So I got an email from my publicist yesterday morning saying, oh, just checking everything's |
| 1:52.6 | okay. |
| 1:53.0 | I thought, oh my God, fuck. |
| 1:57.3 | Yes, listeners, he then sent a very apologetic email to me asking whether or not I could do it later. |
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