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London Calling

Brideshead Revisited

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

James and Toby start out with their own Brideshead Revisited moment as they look back on their days as students at Oxford before getting into the news of the day, including the introduction of mandatory jabs in Austria, the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the forthcoming trial of Ghislaine Maxwell and the Prime Minister losing his place in a speech to the Confederation of British Industry. Source

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0:00.0

This is London Calling with fantastic broadband. Ahh-B-B-B-B-Bless. Ah, forgive me.

0:15.0

forgive me. Forgive me.

0:27.0

Forgive me.

0:28.0

People will have the confidence to stay nearer the place they grew up to start business.

0:33.0

Welcome to London calling with me James Deppininil and my very good friend Mr Toby Young.

0:44.6

Toby you've been busy as usual.

0:46.8

Yes so I was in Oxford on Friday in your old college James.

0:51.6

I actually moving up in the world. It is so much grander

0:57.6

than my old college. So I was at Brisenos, but you were at Christchurch, otherwise known as The House.

1:05.4

The Hice.

1:06.4

And boy, is Christchurch at Grand College?

1:09.9

I mean, not only does it have its own cathedral, but the quads are sort of magnificent vistas.

1:17.1

And it was all spotlessly clean.

1:20.0

There was an army of bowler-hatted staff kind of patrolling not only to check the people were, you know, complying with regulations and there were no unwelcome visitors, but also just keeping everything amazingly kind of clean.

1:35.0

Even the kind of, in the, in the, in what Tom Quad, there was a water feature and then a kind of circular lawn in kind of four segments and each segment had been mowed,

1:47.6

the grass on each segment was absolutely pristine and had been mowed in a kind of pattern.

1:52.3

So sort of from a distance it looked fantastic.

1:55.2

It was very impressive.

1:56.9

It was like unbelievable.

1:58.6

It's just sort of the whole place just smelt of money and privilege in a very pleasant way.

2:04.0

It is, it is bride said, isn't it?

2:06.1

I mean, I mean, we were very conscious of that at the time

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