Butterflies, Bombs and Right-Wing Bloopers

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jemma and Marina are determined to ensure that The Trawl contains as many 'glimmers' as possible so begin the episode with some positive news about butterflies. Also featured is a heart warming story about raving school kids and the Trawl ladies share what each of them have been doing to mitigate how bleak the news is currently.

They do go on to discuss why Rory and Alastair acknowledging that a genocide is occurring on their podcast, feels like a 'moment.' There then follows a heartfelt discussion about how they may or may not vote come the next election, and Marina poses a question which gives them both pause for thought. There are, as ever, some brilliant clips including a particularly powerful one of Jewish US actor, Mandy Patinkin.

Then, did you know it's forty years since Live Aid? A certain someone has tweeted something so bizarre about it, it gives rise to lots of Trawl gold. Still, perhaps it's not quite as terrible as Tommy Robinson not knowing that migrants can be white, or Farage posing on the white cliffs of somewhere like a page 7 fella.

Under rated clips and posts follow and pudding is a poem which Jemma and Marina adore and find very moving. It's by the brilliant Roger McGough.

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Created and Produced by Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Edited by Max Carrey

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're in Portsmouth with an important question.
0:02.4	What is Gowdy's sunflower mansion?
0:04.8	Was it a fancy name for his greenhouse?
0:07.2	Gaudi's Sunflower Mansion.
0:08.8	Sounds like an electro-funk metal band?
0:10.5	Close.
0:10.9	Was it an episode of Grand Designs?
0:12.6	It's actually one of the jewels of European modernism,
0:15.5	a beautiful 19th century palace in Santander,
0:18.4	designed by Gowdy himself.
0:20.4	Oh, cool.
0:21.2	Yeah, and Brittany Ferries can take you there in style.
0:24.4	I'm Portsmouth.
0:25.1	Absolutely.
0:26.4	Book an uncommon holiday with Brittany Ferries.
0:30.1	Has the side hustle gone all laid back?
0:33.4	Your plan's gone way off track.
0:37.1	Or are the orders flowing, but it's hard to keep going.
0:40.9	It's time to bring the fire back, instead of getting sidetracked.
0:45.5	It's time to crack a Costa.
0:48.9	Side hustle without the struggle.
0:51.9	Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today. Crack a Costa.
	...

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