... AND A CHATTEROO YEAR (with Ben Ansell)
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Hap-py New Year! We welcome our first guest of the Chatteroo-era, and what a guest: This year's BBC Reith Lecturer, Professor Ben Ansell - political scientist and former teaching assistant to Ed Miliband (as Ed mentions 5,000 time during the conversation.)
Listen to/read Ben's Reith Lectures: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9
Buy Ben's book, 'Why Politics Fails': https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/product/why-politics-fails-ansell-ben-w/
Visit Ben's website: https://benwansell.com/
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| 0:00.0 | In the unplugged style of our podcast we are recording and shall I say who we're talking to Jeff? |
| 0:14.4 | Yes what do you explain it's a special chatterer? |
| 0:16.7 | I mean we are in the presence of BBC lecturing royalty I think that's the only way of pushing it. |
| 0:23.6 | Don't you think? Yeah I mean basically a colder of wreathian ideals. |
| 0:27.6 | I mean basically Bertrand Russell he wasn't available. |
| 0:31.3 | Robert Oppenheimer he wasn't available. Robert Oppenheimer, he wasn't available either. |
| 0:36.0 | Michael Sandell, he might have been available. |
| 0:38.0 | Stephen Hawking, he sadly wasn't available. |
| 0:40.0 | These are reflecturers and it blow me down, knock me over with a feather. |
| 0:47.5 | Ben Ansel, my friend of 20 years, my former teaching assistant. |
| 0:53.8 | Your former teaching assistant. |
| 0:55.8 | We're going to talk a lot about that. |
| 0:58.4 | Oh, Bonpau. |
| 1:00.2 | Is this year's wreath lecturer? Well, last year's |
| 1:04.0 | year's re-eur lecturer actually because we're going out in the |
| 1:07.4 | meeting of 2024 and we are honored to have him aren't we just on the |
| 1:11.2 | podcast? |
| 1:12.2 | Congratulations on being part of a long line of illustrious names. |
| 1:17.5 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:18.6 | Well, I'm delighted to be on this podcast |
| 1:20.9 | and to see old friends and you I am I have to say when I was asked to do it |
| 1:26.7 | what did you think was so how did it come anything like the Nobel Prize you just get a phone call in the middle of the night or something. |
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