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Politics Unpacked

Hot Takes and Hot Cakes

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to Times Columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester about the news of the day, and comedian Andy Hamilton about what he'd do if he ruled the world - all while eating some of Neil Kinnock's famous welsh cakes.

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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion,

0:06.8

accelerating the transition to net zero.

0:10.7

SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in cleaner, more secure home-grown energy.

0:17.0

That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:25.7

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and

0:30.9

and building the world's largest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire.

0:36.0

When complete, Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy a major step towards the UK

0:46.2

achieving net zero carbon emissions and all this is creating thousands of

0:52.0

sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK.

0:57.0

Find out more about what SSE are doing at S. dot com slash change.

1:02.8

Hello, welcome to the Red Box podcast.

1:04.7

I'm Matt Choddy, bringing you the best of my Times radio show 10 till 1.

1:08.9

Now, last week, my producer Emma bought in some political top trumps from 2007 which we played on air

1:18.0

pitching Hazel Bears against Lembit Oakpick. It was 2007. And I asked people on the show and listeners

1:24.6

what other political things they'd found in charity shops.

1:27.2

Now, one listener, Liam got in touch,

1:29.4

to say that he'd found a House of Commons cookbook

1:32.3

from 1987 with recipes from Norman Tebbitt and

1:36.2

Margaret Thatcher so on. So over the weekend I had a go at Neil Kunix Welsh

1:41.1

cakes and which Tony Turnbull the Times Food editor came in and gave

1:45.4

seven out of ten I think he was being polite but anyway I thought they're

1:47.8

absolutely delicious and they kept me fuel to the entire show but I was also

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