Are Second Homes Where The Heart Is?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley asks whether second home ownership is a blessing or a curse for local communities in staycation hotspots with local protest groups, councils and MPs.

PLUS David Aaronovitch and Danny Finkelstein discuss whether we should really care about the protests to save Geronimo the alpaca.

AND As students learn their A-Level results, MPs including Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick and Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner share memories from their own results day.

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0:00.0	This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy
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0:38.3	be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step
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1:01.5	slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chauley. Now, do you like quizzes? Could
1:08.3	you answer 10 general knowledge questions loosely connected and cabinet jobs? If you could,
1:13.0	then you could become the prime minister of our show on radio. Just get in touch email me
1:17.2	Matt.chauley at times.radio. And we'll get you on the radio very soon, particularly if you're
1:22.1	outside the UK and you can come on on Thursday and be our international quizmer. It's
1:26.0	Matt.chauley at times.radio. If you want to come on and do the quizzes and just have a chat,
1:29.5	that'd be fun. Right, coming up on today's bumper edition of the podcast in our big thing today,
1:36.0	we are looking at second homes. Is your holiday killing the countryside? Is your Airbnb just one of
1:43.2	many of the thousands of homes which now stand idle from a lot of the year squeezing locals
1:48.1	having somewhere to live? That's our big thing coming up. We've also got Finkelvitch,
1:52.6	Daniel Finkelstein and David of one of which are back picking over the news, including should we
1:56.7	shoot the outpacker? That's something to look forward to. But first, it is exam results date,
2:00.8	A level results date in England. So what we thought we'd do is we thought we'd ask a lot of
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