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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Welcome to this podcast about a podcast that nobody is sure has been a podcast... Jane (in the North) and Fi (in the South) discuss Follett Land, blokey books, hospital radio, and Jay and Dunc.
Plus, Fi and Rosie Wright, who's sitting in for Jane on the Times Radio show, speak to Katie Prescott, The Times’ Technology Business Editor, about her new book ‘The Curious Case of Mike Lynch’.
You can listen to our 'I've got the house to myself' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MkG0A4kkX74TJuVKUPAuJ
We've announced our next book club pick! 'Just Kids' is by Patti Smith.
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Second Eve has not given us the green light. Three, two, one, go. Now, this morning's technical |
| 0:16.9 | kerfuffle, which you will appreciate fee, was that I hadn't turned my microphone on. |
| 0:22.3 | And that was causing issues earlier. I've got to say Eve was, she has been throughout this |
| 0:27.0 | process, very, very patient. Yes. And that's why by the time I get in here at Times Towers, |
| 0:32.7 | she looks exhausted. Yes. Well, she may do. She's really earning her money. We should just explain, |
| 0:39.2 | I'm at my mum and dad's sheltered housing. No, you're in a safe house. You are in a safe house. |
| 0:44.4 | This is all part of your new identity. It is quite safe. So I'm not in London, very much hoped to be |
| 0:53.4 | next week. So normalish service will be resumed. But while I'm not in London, very much hope to be next week. |
| 0:54.6 | So normal-ish service will be resumed. |
| 0:57.4 | But while I'm here, I am missing all the political intrigue. |
| 1:01.1 | You're only three tube stops away from Westminster. |
| 1:04.9 | So what is occurring? |
| 1:06.7 | What's been going on? |
| 1:07.6 | Well, I mean, we can feel the vibes radiating out of 10 Downing Street. |
| 1:12.3 | So today's political shenanigans, you've got to follow this vaguely closely to care. |
| 1:20.8 | So Westry, currently the health secretary, he's a very, he's got a big personality and he's never been particularly shy about |
| 1:31.0 | his ambitions. And both of those are glorious things in a human being. So let's just park that |
| 1:36.8 | there. Lots of people have speculated for ages that he's got his eye on the main prize. And really |
| 1:43.5 | rather weirdly, because we're not that far into Labour government |
| 1:48.3 | with a landslide victory, etc., etc. |
| 1:50.6 | There seems to have been a briefing at some point over the last 24 or 48 hours |
| 1:55.7 | from Downing Street to say anybody who's got those kind of ambitions, |
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