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London Calling

Green Around the Gills

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week James has a good walk in Shropshire spoiled by the "bird-blending, bat-chomping eco-crucifixes" and Toby debates animal "rights" around the dinner table because of the deaths of three horses at this past weekend's Grand National. ("Save the Sheep!")

That leads us to the name change of the Brecon Beacons National Park, the scandal at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the shocking suicide of a 19-year old Greenpeace activist from Walthamstow who became inconsolable by the prospect of climate change.

We also pay tribute to Nigel Lawson, Mrs. Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer who died 3 April, aged 91.

In Culture Corner, we let the blocks fall where they may with Tetris (AppleTV+) and Seven Kings Must Die (Netflix.)

Opening sound this week is James Evans, Member of the Senedd for Brecon and Radnorshire courtesy of GBNews.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:02.0

London Calling.

0:03.0

It's just ridiculous, isn't it?

0:05.0

You know, when I meet with the National Park in my constituency,

0:07.0

when I ask them to help build more houses for local people,

0:10.0

when I ask them to help our time centers which are really struggling.

0:13.6

When I ask them to do numbers of different things to help local residents, I get met with the

0:16.8

same response, we'd love to but we've got no money to do that.

0:20.4

And now all you see is the National Park splurging money on a rebrand of an organization

0:24.7

which didn't need to be rebranded in the first place.

0:26.6

There was nothing wrong with Cornet the Breck and Beacons National Park.

0:29.4

And yet again, they're changing things here just a fit a type of culture wall.

0:33.0

Welcome to London Calling with me James Davenport and my very good friend Mr Toby Young.

0:44.0

Tobes, how you doing?

0:45.0

I'm okay I'm okay James.

0:47.0

Did you have a good Easter break?

0:49.0

Did you have an Easter break?

0:50.0

Uh, yeah, I probably did but whatever joys I may have had have been unfortunately trashed by my experience of the last week.

1:02.0

When I took this, I took a couple of days away to see, I think two of the last unspo spore counties in England, Herefordshire and Shropshire. And I realised that even there, there is a serpent in the garden.

1:26.4

So I was, Shropshire, I think is just about as beautiful as England gets.

1:33.4

Have you ever been to the to sort of around Klun and beyond Klun?

1:38.2

Well I've spent some time in Shropshire but I can't say I've ever been to clum.

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