Episode 1943: The Papers - Wednesday July 24th 2024
The Richie Allen Show
The Richie Allen Show
4.7 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Richie reviews Wednesday's newspapers.
Labour suspends benefit cap rebels
Army chief says Britain has 3 years to be ready for war
Long-term sick should be forced back to work
500,000 households ditch BBC license fee
And more
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| 0:00.0 | Extra, extra, read all about it now. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, baby. |
| 0:07.3 | Extra, extra, read all about it now. |
| 0:11.8 | Good morning and welcome to The Papers. |
| 0:14.0 | The Papers podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | With me, Richie Allen, it's Wednesday, July 24th. |
| 0:22.6 | I had to think about it for a minute. Yeah, July 24th, 2024. |
| 0:25.6 | I hope it's nicer there than it is here. |
| 0:30.6 | Another dull and overcast morning here in Saltford. |
| 0:33.6 | But I'm excited. |
| 0:35.6 | My enthusiasm will not be tempered in any way by the weather. You know why? |
| 0:41.1 | Because today, I take possession of a brand new chair for Studio 1 at BBG Towers. Yes, the things |
| 0:50.1 | that excite us and that make us happy. I'm having a new chair, arriving a new radio |
| 0:56.3 | studio chair and I can't wait. First one in six years. The one I'm using now is falling apart. |
| 1:04.0 | It's absolutely collapsing under me. Not that I'm particularly heavy, but it's seen a lot of |
| 1:10.7 | views and it's collapsing. so a brand spanking new. |
| 1:14.0 | BBC Standard, studio chair is arriving, and I'm just bursting with excitement. |
| 1:21.1 | I can hardly contain myself, let alone do the papers podcast, but I'm going to do my very best. Shall we? Shall we start with the Metro? |
| 1:32.2 | Acts strictly. No, cha-cha-chance is the Metro's front-page headlines. You get that. No, |
| 1:40.6 | cha-cha-chance. The cha-cha-cha-cha is a dance, apparently. This is all about a number of people, |
| 1:49.2 | celebrities, who took part in Strictly Come Dancing. They've complained about the behavior |
| 1:56.1 | of some of the professional dancers who appear on the show every year. |
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