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🗓️ 5 May 2021
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Ahead of local elections Matt Chorley is joined by Hannah Al-Othman who is News Reporter for the Sunday Times based in Manchester,
Scottish Political Editor at The Times Kieran Andrews, Sam Cook who is a Presenter at Cardiff TV
and Grainne Mckinney Senior Broadcast Journalist at u105 Belfast to get the news form the 4 corners of the UK
PLUS
Times columnist Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton pick over the day's news
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| 1:15.6 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Scholli, being the best at my time, |
| 1:18.7 | so let's show Monday, Thursday, 10 till one. Happy Super Thursday. Eve is the day before the |
| 1:24.8 | big election day. So coming up, Dishonotic Kingdom and new politics in the four corners of the UK, |
| 1:30.0 | England, Wales and Scotland, plus obviously Northern Ireland, whether they're having their own |
| 1:35.0 | bit of democracy, although only 38 people deciding the new leader of the DUP and the new first |
| 1:40.1 | minister there. That's coming up in just a second. First, of course, our columnist panel is Wednesday, |
| 1:44.4 | so it must be cramp on. It's Robert Crabpton and Alice Thompson. |
| 2:04.8 | Let's talk about divorce. Alice, you've written about the divorce that everyone is talking about. |
| 2:11.0 | The slightly surprising news that Bill and Melinda Gates are parting ways. And you've interviewed |
| 2:18.6 | them several times and you've written about them in the time today. What is it that you |
| 2:24.9 | what's your take on this? Everyone seems to have, oddly, everyone seems to have a take on |
| 2:28.8 | another couple's party. Everyone always does, don't they? With your friends, it's always the ones |
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