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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Breakfast With Beau | Friday 16th January 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Beau discusses today's papers and gives you an overview of the day's news. Live 8-9am GMT on weekdays.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Morning. You're right. How are you doing? I hope you're doing well on this lovely, wintry morning. It is 8am, Greenwich Mean Time. On Friday, the 16th of January, in the year of our Lord, 2006. You are watching Breakfast with Bow, the Bo show, you are the breakfast club.

0:23.6

The BBC Bros Breakfast Club, you're part of the glorious band, the chosen few, the select few.

0:30.6

I'm joined by my producer Harry, young Harry, how are you, little Harry?

0:32.6

You're all right?

0:33.6

Morning, yeah, I'm good.

0:34.6

Good, good, good, good.

0:36.6

All right, well, let's just try and jump straight into it today

0:39.9

is one of those days where one story absolutely dominates it's wall to wall Robert Jenrick

0:45.7

it's the generic defection it's literally I think the front page of every single paper

0:55.0

so we'll get into it.

0:56.0

I'm no fan of Genrik, as we'll become clear during this stream.

1:01.0

Alright, let's have a look then.

1:03.0

So the BBC, Sacked Genric defects and Traytories.

1:08.0

Some really, really tenuous pun on traitors. Trateries. It's a really, really tenuous pun on traitors. Trateries. That's a proper stretch for me as in word, in terms of word play. Traitories, okay. The Guardian goes with...

1:33.3

Saxe-Generic defects to reform with fiery attack on failed Tories.

1:39.3

There we go.

1:41.3

Badenock fires Shadow Justice Secretary for plotting against her.

1:46.0

All right, so let's just jump straight into a few details.

1:48.9

Yesterday, it was yesterday sort of lunchtime, was it?

1:52.0

Maybe just slightly after lunchtime.

1:53.2

About lunchtime.

1:54.5

The story breaks coming out of Conservative Party HQ that Kemi Badenock, the leader of the Tory party,

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