Heatwave Britain & Reform's Sexist Summer
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this Trawl, Marina and Jemma survive Britain’s latest heatwave, the London Underground sauna experience, and yet another deeply questionable Reform candidate.
They dive into the climate conversation nobody seems to want to have anymore and discuss whether “doom fatigue” has pushed climate change down the political agenda.
Plus: the latest Reform UK chaos, misogynistic comments from would-be politicians, councillors wildly out of their depth, and why Parliament perhaps shouldn’t resemble an open-mic night for angry Facebook commenters.
Elsewhere there’s Jane McDonald, holiday romance confessions, furious ranting, sweaty train journeys, parallel parking bragging rights, and one of the greatest misunderstood song lyrics of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | He also said on this post, women can't referee, drive or give directions and happily declared, |
| 0:08.0 | I'm sexist. This is someone reform wants to be an MP. Hello and welcome to The Trall, where we wade through Insta, boomerang round blue sky, meander |
| 0:30.7 | through threads, tiptoe about tip-tock, and hold our noses on X. Also, you don't have to. I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte and |
| 0:39.9 | Marina, you know how in previous episodes of The Trall occasionally I've just really |
| 0:46.1 | walloped you with a very profound insight. You know, like, do you remember there was the episode |
| 0:52.0 | where I suddenly realised that when you think about it, there are a lot of people in America. |
| 0:58.9 | Do you remember that one? |
| 1:00.4 | Oh, yeah, that one was a goodie. |
| 1:02.2 | A real solid takeaway for our listeners. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah, I've got another one. |
| 1:06.8 | Got another one. |
| 1:07.9 | Oh, gosh. |
| 1:09.1 | Brace yourselves, trawlers, go on. |
| 1:11.0 | Okay, this weekend, itwlers, go on. Okay. |
| 1:11.8 | This weekend, it was bloody hot. |
| 1:17.0 | It was flipping, sweltering, and there are a few more interesting points to be made surrounding that. |
| 1:24.7 | But first... |
| 1:25.2 | It was so sweaty. |
| 1:26.4 | It was so sweaty. Yeah, but first, we was so sweaty. It was so sweaty. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah, but first, we need to say, thank you so much to everybody who has now come to our two |
| 1:34.5 | tall live shows. |
| 1:36.7 | The second one happened on Sunday when in the capital city it was about 7,000 degrees. |
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