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Where Politics Meets History

Beirut Babes

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, Politics, History

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith record an earlier than usual podcast because she’s off to Beirut for the weekend and Iain’s in North Devon. Well that’s their story anyway. In this hour long episode they discuss the prospects of an EU deal and whether the Boris/Leo meeting might be a breakthrough moment. They discuss diplomatic immunity in the light of the Harry Dunn tragedy, the conflict between Turkey and Syria, and the prospect of gay couple on Dancing on Ice and Strictly. Oh, and the big news of the week featuring Colleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy can’t be avoided. Smut quota: Too high

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0:00.0

Katie Bolter.

0:01.0

Oh wow.

0:02.0

Tennis is full of noise.

0:04.0

Pressure.

0:05.0

Manifest.

0:06.0

Intensity.

0:07.0

But what really makes me feel alive?

0:09.0

It's the focus in that quiet.

0:13.0

A moment to breathe.

0:17.0

To reset.

0:18.0

To hydrate.

0:20.0

That's what really makes me feel alive.

0:23.6

Britta, the official water partner of the LTA. Pick up Britta's filtration range online or at your

0:29.2

local store. Well, hello listeners, welcome to The For The Many Pod.

0:42.2

I am here on time this week.

0:44.6

I am not even sweating like I was last weekend when I had charged down the motorway to get to podcast live.

0:51.0

But for the second week in a row, Ian Dale and I are in the flesh we are

0:56.7

naked oiled up lubed up ready for a news wrestle but it's going to be a comparatively short one

1:07.4

we should explain that normally we record the podcast usually usually on a Sunday morning, sometimes a Saturday. But this week, I'm afraid we're doing it on Thursday afternoon because I can't, why are we doing it Thursday afternoon?

1:20.6

We're doing it on Thursday afternoon because I am going to Beirut for work and you're having a weekend off. I am. I'm going to North Devon to

1:28.2

Brunton to see my auntie Esther. Very nice. My cousins, Nicola and Richard and their families.

1:35.0

And I intend to do absolutely nothing. I've already turned down an article for the Telegraph.

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