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Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley. Well, I am Matt Shirley, but this

isn't quite the Red Box podcast. Instead, we've got an extra special bonus edition for you,

brought to you by the Times Daily News podcast stories of our times. It's presented by Manvin

Rana and David Ronevich, and it tells one big story in depth each day. But this week, they've

been running a special three part mini series called Failures of State with the Sunday Times

Insight team. They've just written the first major book piecing together the inside story of

Britain's battle with coronavirus. We thought you'd find it interesting to hear. So here is part

one. You can find parts two and parts three over on the stories of our times podcast. You can get

that wherever you get your podcasts from and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any further

episodes. So here is as an extra bonus edition. Here's part one of their series Failures of State.

This month marks a year since COVID turned all of our lives upside down. How can we make sure

a year like this never happens again? And now as ever to the front pages. In April, the Sunday

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