Blair & Murrell : Chopsticks, Kettles & Net Zero
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Marina and Jemma wade into the internet frenzy surrounding Donald Trump’s extremely strange White House pillar moment, the increasingly odd questions around his health, and why he apparently skipped his own son’s wedding.
Then it’s over to Scotland, where the pair unpack Peter Murrell’s extraordinary £400k spending spree involving luxury pens, kettles, chopsticks and enough bizarre purchases to accidentally turn the episode into a very disturbing edition of The Generation Game.
Plus: Tony Blair pops up to tell everyone to calm down about net zero, Marina prepares to battle Reform on Jeremy Vine, and Gavin Williamson mourns his tarantula in what may be the most baffling BBC headline ever written.
There are also live show updates, climate facts, sensory play chat absolutely nobody asked for, and a growing concern that Marina may know far too much about niche fetishes.
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| 0:00.0 | Would you like to talk about the 2,618 pounds on the Lalik salt and pepper grinders? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl, where we drag the week's political chaos onto the deck, |
| 0:23.2 | flapping like a fish that's been hooked in the throat. |
| 0:25.7 | We hose it down and then ask, how on earth did that happen before throwing it back into the drink? |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:32.7 | And I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:34.2 | And today we're kicking off with a very high-brow question, actually. |
| 0:38.0 | The high-brow question that sections of the internet were asking when Donald Trump was spotted |
| 0:43.9 | sort of lurking by a pillar at the front of the White House. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, that's right. So we've got the clip, but the clip you're not going to be able to see, |
| 0:52.9 | and there's not really any sound. And yet, weirdly, we've decided to just play the Atmos from the clip for you to hear. |
| 1:00.0 | So let's get that on. |
| 1:03.2 | So there's a car outside the White House and you've got various officials around and there's |
| 1:09.3 | Trump. |
| 1:09.7 | And he's sort of loitering, it's it's odd it's like he's |
| 1:14.7 | thinking maybe straining I'm not sure um but he's just standing he's there for quite a while it ends up |
| 1:21.3 | being about five minutes in total of total inertia yeah he's just standing next to a huge white pillar. |
| 1:29.1 | There's no reason for him to have stopped there. |
| 1:31.4 | Yes. |
| 1:31.7 | It's not an obvious or natural place just to stop. |
| 1:35.5 | No. |
| 1:35.9 | And all of these people around him are kind of looking at him curiously as to like, why has he stopped? |
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