Edinburgh Melons
Where Politics Meets History
Global
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Ian, the question on everybody's lips, so to speak, is how is your hard drive today? |
| 0:17.0 | My hard drive has never been more stiff and hard and empty. |
| 0:25.1 | That's the crucial bit, mate. Have you cleared it out? |
| 0:30.2 | For those of you who are wondering what on earth we're saying, and by the way, welcome to all of our new listeners as a result of the LBC adverts for The Many, |
| 0:38.5 | which have finally appeared this week. Of course, the one week we didn't really want them to |
| 0:42.4 | appear because we, or I cocked up last week and we only did 20 minutes because it didn't |
| 0:47.6 | record the rest because my hard drive was full. Anyway, these technical difficulties are |
| 0:52.6 | hopefully behind us and we will have a full length today. |
| 1:00.7 | Start as we mean to go on. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah, but it is going to be only an hour. |
| 1:04.9 | It's not going to be one of our 90-minute extravaganzas |
| 1:07.1 | because I have to go and watch a friend of mine, Sarah Southern, |
| 1:10.7 | in a fringe at 12 |
| 1:12.0 | and we're recording Sunday morning by the way and her show is called tentatively Tory and apparently |
| 1:17.4 | it's very good so this is my last day in Edinburgh so I wanted to go and see that but before we do |
| 1:22.8 | all that do you want to take us through Jackie what we're going to be talking about yeah we will, as we missed it last week, I think we'll do a quick run round of the new |
| 1:32.2 | Prime Minister's first couple of weeks. I've slightly forgotten how long he's been at it for. |
| 1:37.6 | I think we'll do a section on whether or not the union is at risk. |
| 1:48.0 | Gordon Brown talking about that this morning. |
| 1:50.3 | We'll talk about the likelihood of a general election or a government of national unity |
| 1:55.1 | or what the hell is going to be happening in the next few months. |
| 1:57.8 | We'll touch on the latest from the magic money forest, a big announcement |
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