4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast. |
0:08.4 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take |
0:13.1 | with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.4 | For right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:20.6 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.0 | Music Music |
0:41.8 | My cast away this week is Dame Glenner Stacey. |
0:44.7 | She spent almost 40 years in public service, much of it as a regulator. |
0:49.3 | It's often her job to tell the government of the day truths they don't want to hear. |
0:53.6 | She specialises in the invisible work that underpins many of the assumptions we make |
0:57.7 | every day that our food will be safe to eat, our justice system fit for purpose, or that |
1:02.8 | exam results can be trusted. |
1:05.0 | Her job is to create a system of checks and balances that can withstand crises and the |
1:10.1 | political vicissitudes of any given moment. |
1:13.1 | In a world where kwangos, watchdogs and select committees don't always get the best press, |
1:18.0 | she's a powerful advocate for their ability to hold institutions to account. |
1:22.3 | She says fairness is at the root of it all. |
1:24.9 | She walks into chaotic situations and creates order out of them. |
1:29.0 | Dame Glenner Stacey welcome to desert island discs. |
1:31.4 | Thank you very much. |
1:32.4 | So tell me more about the appeal of walking into those chaotic situations and creating |
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