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Politics Unpacked

Culture war, what is it good for?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

New polling reveals just 4 per cent of people know what the culture war is. Matt Chorley speaks to an expert panel about what this means for politics.


Plus Esther Webber and Robert Crampton on why Germany now envies Britain.



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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

0:06.0

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0:14.3

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0:27.1

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0:38.3

be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

0:45.2

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.5

slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Charlie,

1:11.2

bringing you the best of my Times radio show, which can listen to Monday to Thursday 10 to 1.

1:15.5

I'd like to start by thanking everybody who has made this possible. I'd like to thank my agents.

1:19.9

I don't have an agent. My wife, I do have a wife incredibly. And everyone who believes in doing

1:24.9

politics without the boring bits. Yes, amazingly, I've been nominated for my first radio award

1:31.3

found out this morning, shortlisted for the by the Broadcasting Press Guild.

1:36.7

As audio broadcaster of the year, although it seems like it's more like everyone who's on the

1:41.6

radio at 10 o'clock, because I'm up against Clara Ampho from BBC Radio One who's on air at the same

1:46.6

time as me. Frank Skinner, who's on absolute at 10 o'clock on Saturdays. And Emma Barnett, who was on

1:52.8

five live at 10 a.m., but found it too much going up against me for three hours. And now just as one

1:57.3

hour on something called radio four. No, me neither. Anyway, they're all legends. They know what they're

2:03.5

doing. And now the judges are actually going to have to listen to my show. So there's no chance I'll

2:07.3

win. But it does mean that we can celebrate just being nominated, which is a good excuse to open a

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