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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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After SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes faces questions about her views on gay marriage, Matt discusses the role of faith in politics with columnists Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch, while former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron says she should be honest about her religious beliefs.
Plus: Over the last six months, employees at 60 British businesses have been taking part in an experiment - can they move to a four-day working week without losing any pay? Now the results are in, Matt speaks to some of the firms who took part to find out whether it could be replicated across the country.
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is the red box podcast. I'm Matt Charlie. Don't forget you can listen to my |
0:08.3 | time. So they show live on your DAB radio on your smart speaker and on the times radio |
0:14.0 | app Monday to Friday, 10 till one. But we bring you the big thing in the columnist panel |
0:18.7 | every day on the podcast today's big thing. Would you like to work just four days a week? |
0:24.1 | It's been a massive trial to see if you can fit five days work into four loads of businesses |
0:29.0 | think that you can will hear from some of them. And we'll also try to work out if it might |
0:32.8 | actually help the economy or not. So that's coming up just a moment. Think of which |
0:36.0 | will be here in a moment. But of course, the big political story of last week was Nicolas |
0:40.8 | Sturgeon resigning as the leader of the SMP and first minister this week. It's all about |
0:45.5 | who's going to replace her. And the big question of faith in politics after Kate Forbes, one |
0:52.2 | of the candidates to replace her was asked about her faith. So we thought we'd bring you |
0:57.1 | a little bit of this CC HQ, surely campaign headquarters. Yes, we're heading north |
1:08.9 | of the border to get our very to dip into the very latest already hotting up. We can go |
1:12.2 | and cut the days to really hotting up the this is CC HQ with our armchair generals taking |
1:17.7 | a look at the SMP leadership contest. We say good morning to Karen Andrews. Scotch, |
1:23.2 | but it's going to for the times. Morning, Kevin. Morning, Matt. Where are you this morning, |
1:27.8 | Kevin? I am in not quite sunny. Dundee about to start missing a week. Very good. Very |
1:33.6 | good. And Rachel Watson, but it's going to the Scottish sun was in a lay by yesterday. |
1:37.4 | Is it any more glamorous today, Rachel? Good morning. It's slightly more glamorous. |
1:41.3 | I'm in Edinburgh this morning, so at least I'm not in our venue, Levi. So just before, |
1:46.6 | just after we spoke yesterday, we were waiting confirmation of Kate Forbes's campaign |
1:51.7 | launch. She was put out of very glossy video about 11 o'clock yesterday. I think that |
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