High Drama, Low Politics: James Norton joins the cast
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak has had his first proper reshuffle (excluding the one he did as soon as he started).
What do the changes tell us about the priorities of this government? And what has he left?
TL:DR Dominica Raab remains in his job.
Then, we shift to the Calder Valley. James Norton is in HQ and talks playing a rapist, being from Yorkshire and what the PM is getting wrong with the arts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | 105 days since Rishi Sunak went into number 10. |
| 0:10.6 | Today he has got to a different sort of milestone, his first proper reshuffle, |
| 0:16.6 | the first moment where he decides to reshuffle the pack of ministers |
| 0:21.5 | and move less charitably some of the deck chairs around the Titanic. |
| 0:26.5 | And it's not just a shuffling of the people. |
| 0:28.7 | This time it is a shuffling of the departments, |
| 0:31.9 | a so-called machinery of government change. |
| 0:34.5 | Very very exciting for the nerds, of course, Emily. |
| 0:36.5 | Are you excited? |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, we're trying to work out what it all means. |
| 0:40.5 | Today on the newsagents, we're going to tell you who's in, who's out, and the things that |
| 0:46.2 | haven't changed that you thought perhaps would. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:54.7 | It's Lewis. The Newsagents. |
| 0:56.6 | It's Lewis. |
| 0:57.7 | And it's Emily. |
| 0:58.5 | And we're also going to be joined by James Norton, Tommy Lee Royce, star of Happy Valley. |
| 1:04.0 | This is your warning. |
| 1:05.0 | Put this on pause and run and finish the finale if you haven't done yet. |
| 1:09.2 | She somehow manages to nail what is inherently unpredictable, |
| 1:13.1 | and yet when you've watched it, you're like, oh, that was the only ending that could have been. |
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