EMQs: Ed Balls Day
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It’s the most auspicious day of the year: Ed Balls Day. To celebrate, George has got his Ed Balls mask out (not a euphemism), and is ready to go Inside the Room. Just kidding. But he has in fact organised some questions from Ed’s nearest and not-so dearest.
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves asks about Ed’s favourite Gregg’s order. Bandmate and Political Journalist Robert Peston wants to know why regulation of public services has gone so badly wrong, and Ed’s successor in his Morley and Outwood seat, Andrea Jenkyns, wonders if he regrets Labour’s gold sale.
Plus, the icon that is Delia Smith asks about their shared passion: Norwich City Football Club. Not that that will stop Ed and George discussing their favourite Delia recipes.
Head to our social media platforms to see how Ed celebrated Ed Balls day this year @polcurrency
Producer: Rosie Stopher
Production support: Ellen Morgan
Technical Producer: Will Gibson Smith and Oliver Geraghty
Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford
Political Currency is a Persephonica Production and is part of the Acast Creator Network.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We are in campaign mode and we're asking you to join our podcast movement by becoming a subscriber to political currency gold. |
| 0:08.0 | Yes for the price of one cup of coffee a month you can support the show go ad free and get early access to EMQs and our |
| 0:15.8 | inside-the-room specials. Well that's a manifesto anyone would want to sign up to and |
| 0:20.2 | you can try before you buy with a free trial on Apple Podcasts or on |
| 0:24.9 | patron if you listen on Spotify or elsewhere. There are more details in the |
| 0:29.5 | show notes. So please do join us. B.P. is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, |
| 0:38.0 | like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:40.0 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:43.6 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:47.8 | While today we're mostly an oil and gas. |
| 0:50.4 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 1:01.0 | VP.com slash and not all. |
| 1:06.7 | This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 1:09.2 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine |
| 1:11.7 | when we become ill, but even better than recovering from being |
| 1:14.7 | unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 1:17.3 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 1:22.4 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 1:24.8 | G.S. K say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines |
| 1:28.2 | to reduce HIV transmission or stopping chronic conditions from |
| 1:31.9 | progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:34.3 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Persephonica, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Persephonica and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.