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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

How damaging are budget cuts to police funding?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Listen to James O'Brien's phone-in show, which will make you think - and possibly change your outlook on the big stories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

James O'Brien.

0:01.8

Three minutes after 10. A very good morning indeed to you. Quite a lot to get through today. PNQ's

0:06.6

with the deputies. Who is it? David Lidington and... Who's the other? Is it Yvette Cooper?

0:12.6

No. Emily Thornberry. I beg your pardon. I do apologise.

0:17.0

Speaking of matters feminine and feminist, we'll be joined by Caroline Creado Perez.

0:21.8

At about 1145, the author and campaigner has written a book that really did stop me in my tracks.

0:27.9

We'll find out why.

0:29.1

In the second hour of the programme, in the third hour, we're going to hopefully, unless something important occurs while we're spending our morning together,

0:36.7

hopefully the first hour of the afternoon, we'll see us turn our attention to this story.

0:40.3

Great headline, no hugging please, we're British.

0:43.3

I really feel this and oddly, you know, I'm sort of a bit of a snowflake on such matters.

0:49.3

Normally lean towards modernity, but I struggle.

0:53.3

I'd like to go back to the days when a handshake

0:55.2

was about the extent of our physical intimacy with non-family members because I'm weird

1:01.0

and in the first hour we turn our attention to police and problems second hour as I mentioned

1:08.0

to you a moment ago hopefully you're better qualified than I am to tell me why I should be worried about Huawei. Hwaway.

1:14.5

It makes me feel a bit like Al Pacino, the scent of a woman.

1:18.2

Who are way? Who are way? Why should I be worried about them

1:21.9

helping to build key parts of the UK's new 5G network. Some people who I ordinarily bow to or respect or admire seem deeply troubled by this.

1:35.7

From across the political spectrum, I stress. Those are the stories that I'm most drawn to at the moment during these very choppy waters, I think subjects upon which you can find a

1:45.4

consensus across the political spectrum are in many ways the ones that we should talk about the most

1:51.2

in the hope of building a few more bridges. But we begin, as I mentioned, with the police

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