Can Farage Out-Stunt Ed Davey?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Reform UK launches a competition to pay one winner’s energy bills for a year - is the party attempting to out-stunt Ed Davey?
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with James Marriott and Sarah Ditum.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day |
| 0:09.2 | from Trump's latest swipe at the UK and Kirstama to journalists cold calling the leader of the free world |
| 0:15.4 | and can reform outstunt the king of stunts. |
| 0:26.3 | Well, joining me making a dramatic entrance as ever in a Zorb it's James Marriott hello James |
| 0:28.4 | all right you don't know what a Zorb is do you |
| 0:30.3 | is that like Zorbing yes like a giant hamster wheel |
| 0:32.9 | that's very uh invented in New Zealand I believe |
| 0:36.0 | okay enough and bungee jumping in to join us it's Sarah Dytum. Hello, Sarah. Hello. Hey, me, James Marriott was the Times Zorbing correspondent. I feel a feature coming on. Do you know, I'm regretting him off, because I imagine there could be all kind of Zorb stories here from James Marriott that we hadn't heard. No, is... Have you yet zorbed? I haven't zorbed. It's odd that you should bring it up because I was Googling about Zorb stories here from James Marrick that we hadn't heard. No, is it's very... Have you yet zorbed? |
| 0:55.0 | I haven't zorbed. |
| 0:55.8 | It's odd that you should bring it up because I was googling about Zorbing. |
| 0:58.8 | Why? |
| 0:59.3 | Earlier this week, there's a song called Zorbing. Is there? By a band called Stornoway that was very big when I was at university. Yes, of course. Yes, yeah, yeah. I interviewed the singer from Stornoway. |
| 1:08.3 | It randomly got stuck on my head |
| 1:09.6 | and I was like, swarping, what is that? |
| 1:11.1 | You don't hear about it anymore. |
| 1:12.2 | People going around in giant inflated balls. interviewed the singer from Stornoway. It randomly got stuck on my head and I was like, Zorping, what is that? |
| 1:11.1 | You don't hear about it anymore. |
| 1:12.2 | People going around in giant inflated balls. Don't give Ed Davy any ideas. I'm sure it's due a political comeback, surely. I can imagine you rolling down a hill in a Zorb, constantly getting hit in the head by a quite heavy hardback book that you take with you. There's some horrific sort of tragic comic thing. |
| 1:29.8 | Anyway, let's some horrific sort of tragic comic thing. |
| 1:29.8 | Anyway, let's crack on and talk about some news, and not so much James Marri in a zorb. |
| 1:33.8 | President Trump has launched some of his most scathing criticism of the UK, and Sir Kistammer as well to date. |
| 1:39.5 | He described Kirstarmer's response to his request for help, keeping the straight of hummers open for shipping as terrible after the Prime Minister said Britain would not get dragged into a wider war. |
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