Ed Conway Breaks Down The World's Most Important Materials | Christmas Special
Jimmy's Jobs of the Future
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future. We have a bit of a Christmas special for you lined up today. |
| 0:06.5 | It's a bit like the spectator in the sense that this is almost a double issue. It's one of the |
| 0:10.9 | longest episodes we've ever recorded of Jimmy's jobs of the future, but I do think it's one of our best ever episodes. |
| 0:19.0 | We've also done a pretty remarkable trailer and introduction to it, which you're going to hear in a minute |
| 0:25.2 | but I do also encourage you to check it out on YouTube because it's something that we're putting |
| 0:30.1 | a lot of effort into here at Jimmy's jobs at the moment. We have some big plans next year to make |
| 0:35.8 | some docu series about the economy and about British business, which I'm really excited about. |
| 0:46.0 | I hope you'll get a chance to listen to this whilst you're cooking the turkey. I am having my first Christmas with three kids under the age of four so it's going to be pretty chaotic where I am so I'm |
| 0:55.5 | wishing you a very happy Christmas and thank you for listening in 2023. 2003. crucial substances in material history. |
| 1:12.8 | They built our world and they will transform our future. |
| 1:16.8 | They took us from the dark ages to the present day. |
| 1:19.6 | They now power our computers and our phones, build our homes and create life-saving medicines. |
| 1:26.9 | But most of us take them completely for granted. |
| 1:30.4 | Today's guest Ed Conway, the Sky News, Economics and Data Editor, has written one of the most important |
| 1:36.7 | books of the last decade, the material world. |
| 1:40.3 | It's definitely the best book I read in 2003. |
| 1:42.3 | And don't just take my word for it. |
| 1:45.0 | Join us on this podcast where we crisscross across the globe. |
| 1:49.0 | From the sweltering depths of Europe's deepest mines |
| 1:52.0 | to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan, to the eerie |
| 1:56.0 | green pools where lithium originates. |
| 1:58.9 | This is such a complex kind of set of processes. |
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