Hello, this is the Webbox podcast. I'm Matt Chauley, bringing you the best of my times

ready to show. Don't forget you can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 till 1 on DAB Smart

Speaker, all on the times ready to wrap. We can only fit a certain amount of the podcast

because you don't want to listen back to the whole show. But the sort of things that you

miss, you miss our mystery voice competition, think tank Thursdays where Polymer Kensington

Rachel Wolf pick over the big ideas of the week. We look back at a way days with William

Hague. So yeah, join us if you can life because we loads of stuff that you won't otherwise get.

But we've crammed quite a lot into the podcast today. Coming up, one of the most remarkable

interviews I think I've ever done. Actually, the veteran former Labour MP, Frank Field,

was told 18 months ago he only had weeks to live. He tells me how he's quite enjoying the fact

that he's still here. We talk about politics. We talk about faith. His Christianity, the

impact that had in his politics, being asked to think the unthinkable by Tony Blair and then

resigning his friendship with Mark Thatcher and being forced out of the Labour Party. So yeah,

genuinely lovely moving, fascinating interview with Frank Field coming up. But first, as ever,

we kick off with the columnist panel.

The columnist on time's radio. Yeah, Thursday means it should be night at the Marriott,

but we've got no James Marriott to date. We don't know where he is. We don't know. Maybe he's sent

a lot of text to Matt Hancock, he's aware of that, but we have got India night. Morning, India.

Morning, Matt. Nice to have you with us. And Jimmy McLaughlin, former number-toed advisor in host of

Jimmy's jobs on the future jobs of the future podcast. Morning, Jimmy. Morning, Matt. Good

to have you. Morning. We should talk about what's apps. Let's talk about what's apps. Matt Hancock's

what's apps. We're reading again, you know, interesting communications between ministers.

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