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I went to a play. It's called Crisis What Crisis. It's an immersive experience where the

audience have to try and save the Call of Hand government in 1979. We try our hand in negotiating

unions, the media, whipping MPs, making the numbers add up in the treasury, and then there's a big

vote until we have to see if we manage to save the government or not. I'll be honest, we weren't

very good at the media side of things, but you can hear exactly what happens, you hear from Henry

and the director of the rights behind the play. That's coming up in our main thing on the podcast.

First, it's our columnist panel and on a Friday. It is times columnists, Melanie Wheat and James

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