Disunited Kingdom: Food banks
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
After exclusive polling revealed that one in six people are regularly skipping meals, Matt Chorley looks at the demands on food banks. He hears from Josie Barlow, Manager at Bradford Central Foodbank, Brenda Fogg, who founded the Hope Restored foodbank in Llandudno, and Megan Kelly, a volunteer at Skegoneill Community Foodbank in Belfast.
PLUS Robert Crampton and Alice Thomson discuss harvesting and sewage.
AND a special appearance from Stig Abell.
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| 0:58.9 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley, coming up on today's show. No PMQs, |
| 1:04.3 | obviously, because it's still recessed and we still don't know who the prime minister's going to be. |
| 1:08.3 | So today we bring you DC and Arctic Kingdom every Wednesday. Oh, my times I do show. We travel |
| 1:12.7 | the four corners of the UK to get the latest political news. But as we're doing food, what we thought |
| 1:17.2 | today is go to some food banks in the four corners of the UK. Find out how they're coping. We've |
| 1:22.7 | got exclusive research today as well, which shows one in six people are skipping meals to try and save |
| 1:30.7 | money. Millions more have put food back on the shelves because they can't afford to buy. |
| 1:35.2 | So we'll dig into that a bit later on in the podcast. First thing we kick off with our |
| 1:39.1 | colony's panel and on Wednesday it is Aliburnt. It's Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton. |
| 1:45.4 | The columnists with Aliburnt, Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton on Times Radio. |
| 1:52.3 | Yes, Robert Crampton's here in the studio. One of Robert's nice to see you. You too. |
| 1:56.9 | We've also got Alice beaming in from Sonny Devon. How are you, Alice? |
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