Catherine Bohart: TL;DR - 5. Are we going to see Robert Jenrick's Brat Summer?

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Confused by candidates? If you're feeling adrift ahead of the Conservative leadership election, TL;DR has done the reading for you.

Alex Kealy joins Catherine Bohart to look at the runners and riders. In the sidebar, Russian stand-up Olga Koch looks at why a strong opposition is politically useful, and Financial Times columnist Stephen Bush looks at what it takes for an opposition to get back in the driving seat.

Written by Catherine Bohart, with Madeleine Brettingham, Sarah Campbell, and Georgie Flinn.

Produced by Victoria Lloyd

Recorded by Merlin Kerr at Monkey Barrel in Edinburgh

Edited by David Thomas

Production Coordinator - Beverly Tagg

A Mighty Bunny production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	Your Dead to Me is back. Yes, we are the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:06.0	We should always be the stupidest person in the room because then you're in the right room.
0:09.5	This series will be excavated evidence on a pioneering paleontologist,
0:13.2	will learn about LGBTQ life in Weymah, Germany,
0:16.1	and will take a novel look at the history of printing.
0:18.6	So informative.
0:20.0	Join me, Greg Jennerner, and Gallant guests
0:22.2	like Robin Ince, Ed Gamble and Sarah Pasco.
0:24.7	I'm aging myself now like a dinosaur fossil.
0:27.6	There used to be only four channels.
0:29.2	You're dead to me. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds.
0:34.0	Music Radio Podcasts.
0:37.0	Welcome to TLDR.
0:38.0	Too Long Didn't Read The show that does for news what Yeager bombs do for a church picnic.
0:43.4	I'm Catherine Beaherboms do for a church picnic.
0:46.6	I'm Catherine Beohhart and we're coming to you from the Edinburgh Fringe, the Edinburgh military
0:53.7	tattoos gay cousin.
0:57.2	I haven't seen so many prancing rich kids and sellers since the Von Trapp's fled the Nazis. I think my issue with a lot of news media is that it's a bit
1:06.5	dry, it's musly when I want unbongo hosed directly at my face. Remember, unbongo? So we're here to help you spice up your current
1:16.0	affairs life and what's going on out there this week? Well in education news
1:20.7	scientists want to add lolly licking to the school curriculum.
1:24.0	Licking ice creams and lollies teaches children vital scientific concepts
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