Brexit Goes To Hollywood
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🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are discussing Channel 4's new political drama, Brexit: The Uncivil War, written by James Graham and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. And in You Ask Us, they consider whether a Labour party led by Yvette Cooper would be quite as pro-European as some seem to think.
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this week we review James Graham's Brexit drama. |
| 1:33.0 | We discuss how the referendum campaign really played out. |
| 1:35.6 | And we ask a question, if a vet Cooper were labour leader, would she be follow back pro-European? So Stephen, we are as I say we and most of the new statesman it felt like you |
| 1:49.8 | me a new, Julia and the gaffer went out last week to see a preview screening of James Graham's Channel 4 Drama, |
| 1:55.6 | the Brexit the Un Civil War on this week, available on foreign demand. |
| 1:59.2 | How did you find it? I suppose we should do a bit of a declaration of interest so James |
| 2:03.0 | Graham was writing the diary in this week's magazine. Previously he |
| 2:06.0 | discussed that I'm a big fan of his work I think as are you. I mean I'm not quite in |
| 2:10.6 | the pay of Big Graham but I wrote a profile of him 18 months ago and since then I followed his career with interest. |
| 2:16.4 | He seems to be doing all right. |
| 2:17.4 | But did you like it? Did it Hitler hit the spot for you? |
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