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Oh God, What Now?

47: Fixing the BBC, Leavers for a Final Say vote and Ask Remainiacs

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, News, Government, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on the premier reason-based podcast for Brexit-watchers… The BBC’s coverage of Brexit is causing increasing alarm. Is the Corporation failing in its duty to explain? Is it just frightened of government and demagogues? How do we fix it? Is John Humphrys really past his sell-by date? And if Remainers join the Bash The BBC mob, will we all live to regret it? Plus: Theresa May’s world tour of Britain’s cow-sheds. With even volunteers for Vote Leave saying there must be a Final Say referendum, will it happen? Special guest Harry Eyres tell us about his new satirical book ‘Johnson’s Brexit Dictionary’. And we answer your queries in the return of ASK REMAINIACS. “The Prime Minister looked like a 12-year old girl being dragged to the dentists.” This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Andrew Harrison with Peter Collins and Ian Dunt. Audio production: Jack Claramunt. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Help us to #OwnTheRemoan! Back our treacherous project and get smart Remainiacs merchandise via our Patreon page. www.REMAINIACS.com Theme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. Buy it here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Are the papers driving you up the wall? Same here.

0:03.4

I'm Miranda Sawyer and I'm here to let you know about our new podcast PaperCuts.

0:07.9

It's the modern newspaper review where we look at the biggest stories from party gates to psychosegles,

0:13.7

from Boris to Trump to Megan and Harry and find out what's really going on behind the headlines.

0:19.7

That's PaperCuts, out lunchtime every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with me Miranda Sawyer.

0:25.1

Subscribe on your favourite podcast app.

0:27.6

PaperCuts, we read the papers so you don't have to.

0:31.6

Hello and welcome to a special in-set week supply teacher edition of Remaniacs. It's half-term.

0:59.6

A large chunk of our team are off at centre parks or walking the Appian way or whatever it is they do in the metropolis and bubble on their holidays.

1:06.0

So I'm filling in my name is Andrew Harrison and I'm the producer of this show.

1:09.7

Sitting at the back of the class and throwing orange peel at me today will be two of our regulars.

1:13.5

Peter Collins is our business expert and entrepreneur, a prexologist. Hello Peter, how are you?

1:17.1

Very well, thank you.

1:18.2

After the Cambridge Analytica scandal you're feeling ever happier that you're not on social media at all and cannot be traced in any way.

1:24.6

Well, I hate to say I told you so but actually I do. Don't I hate to say I told you so.

1:29.2

But what I do is whenever I have to go on a social media thing and you have to register to read something that the one thing you can do is throw a little digital spanner in the works because there's no requirement to tell the truth.

1:40.5

So I always register as a 92 year old transsexual from San Francisco called Doris.

1:45.3

And what's your secret identity?

1:48.3

No, I now get these spam emails on the special email address with a fake name that I use for this purpose that says congratulations Doris.

1:56.5

Do you want a prize click here to find out what he's is?

1:59.4

Fantastic. I thought your secret identity was at real Donald Trump but I guess not.

2:04.9

Do you not ever worry that a big data will cross-referency with the electoral role?

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