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🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Matt Chorley is joined by Jonathan Lynn, co-creator Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, to talk about the legacy of the hit comedy series, and how he thinks it may not have been beneficial to the way Whitehall works now.
PLUS:
Times' Columnists Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch discuss the day's news.
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| 1:01.5 | slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. Day two of Prime Minister's week, it's 300 years |
| 1:14.0 | since Robert Warhol became Britain's first PM. So all this week we're taking an in-depth look at |
| 1:19.6 | what it takes to do the job. Yesterday we put together our perfect PM still to come this week. How |
| 1:24.9 | do you win at PMQ's and has Keir Starmer got what it takes for his hands on the keys to number 10. |
| 1:31.2 | But today, oh, there's only one Prime Minister that everybody loves and that is Jim Mahaka. We |
| 1:36.4 | speak to one of the co-creators of yes Prime Minister Jonathan Lin about how the series came about, |
| 1:42.8 | the sources that told them how government really works and why he thinks it's far from improving |
| 1:48.1 | the way that we're governed. The series may have made the country worse. That's coming up. But first |
| 1:54.0 | it's our columnist panel, it's Tuesday, so it must be Finkelvitch, it's Danny Finstine and David |
| 1:58.3 | of all of it. So let's talk about a story which is dominating at least some of the front pages, |
| 2:06.0 | mainly the Daily Mirror, Jennifer R. Curey, number 10 insisting he conducted himself with honesty |
| 2:11.9 | and integrity during his alleged relationship with Jennifer R. Curey, following new accounts of the |
| 2:17.2 | two of them had sex on a sofa in his mouth all home. Does this matter in the 21st century, Danny? |
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