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Where Politics Meets History

394: THE WEDNESDAY EDITION: Manspreading & Mansplaining

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, Politics, History

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale answers listener questions and doles out some well meaning advice, including to someone who’s having a gay affair with a married man, someone who wants him to rank the Irish Taoisigh, another who wonders if it’s still possible the Red Wall will remain Conservative and another listener who worries about moving in with his girlfriend.

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0:00.0

This is a Global Player Original podcast.

0:16.0

Hello and welcome to the Wednesday edition of the For the Many podcast. I'm sitting, not in my sitting room, which I normally do when I record these,

0:24.5

but I'm in my new home office, which is on the ground floor of Dales-Simmonsdale Towers,

0:29.5

looking out onto a rather over-growing garden.

0:32.7

I've got all my little photos.

0:34.7

Got the statue of Mrs. T. Gladstone, Ronald Reagan, picture of my mum, picture of my

0:41.0

grandmother, picture of my godmother, picture of my old Jack Russell, Gio, and a brick,

0:49.7

which is actually the best Christmas present I've ever had. It was for Secret Santa,

0:54.9

a brick which was from the rub Christmas present I've ever had. It was for Secret Santa, a brick,

1:03.5

which was from the rubble of Upton Park, which I just don't know why. I just loved it.

1:08.9

Jay Louise Knight, LBC's travel correspondent or travel reporter, she got it for me for a secret center back in what it must have been 2017 i

1:13.4

suppose anyway i digress because you're here to listen to me answering questions that you've been

1:19.1

sending in thick and fast not sure i'm going to get through with them all today but let's start

1:23.1

with stephen holland who says ian as you're watching the West Wing again, which character

1:28.4

would you like to play? Also, which job would you like at the White House? I'm just finished

1:34.9

series three, so I think that's 66 episodes I've watched over the past few weeks. So I think

1:40.4

there's seven series altogether, so a bit of a way to go. John does not understand how I can

1:45.0

binge watch like this, but I just love it. And I generally watch one or two episodes during the day,

1:51.4

and then I watch maybe one, two, or possibly even three when I go to bed on my laptop. It's,

1:57.6

it is the most fantastic series. It hasn't dated at all. That's what's really surprised me.

2:01.6

And also there are very few episodes that I actually remember.

2:06.6

There was one the other night where CJ's bodyguard was shot dead in a New York deli.

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