Introducing Stories of our times - Hold your horses: should Cheltenham Festival have gone ahead?
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The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Introducing our new free daily news podcast, Stories of our times. It takes you to the heart of the stories that matter, with exclusive access and reporting. Published for the start of your day, it is hosted by Manveen Rana and David Aaronovitch.
Cheltenham Festival was the last major sporting event to take place prior to the national lockdown in the UK. But should it ever have happened? The four-day fixture took place in March and has since become a lightning rod for criticism around perceived government inaction on the coronavirus crisis. We talk to people who were there.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Natalie Sawyer here. Something special for you today is we're giving you an |
| 0:04.1 | addition of the new daily podcast from The Times and the Sunday Times. It's called |
| 0:09.3 | Stories of Our Times and is presented by Manveen Rana. It comes out every day and focuses on one story per episode, including this one, which looks at the Cheltenham Festival and whether it should have gone ahead this year. |
| 0:23.0 | Have a listen and let us know what you think. |
| 0:25.0 | I hope you like it, and if you do, be sure to subscribe and rate it. |
| 0:28.0 | Just search for stories of our times on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, A-Cast or your usual podcast app. |
| 0:35.6 | The Cheltenham Festival, just days before lockdown was one of the racing calendars most anticipated weeks of the year. |
| 0:44.4 | It's a little bit like Christmas for us really, you know. The town itself and all the local |
| 0:48.0 | villages and the pubs they're all geared up for us. It's a fantastic time of year. |
| 0:51.6 | A quarter of a million people attended, but as a shadow of |
| 0:55.2 | coronavirus was creeping across the country, should they have been there at all? |
| 0:59.6 | The racing world can accuse of often being a bit of a bubble but I can assure you it was the |
| 1:04.8 | topic of conversation at all times was the government slow off the mark did events |
| 1:10.0 | such as a Cheltenham festival helped the virus to spread across the country. |
| 1:15.0 | As pressure mounts for an independent inquiry, we talked to four people who were there |
| 1:19.0 | on the day of the Gold Cup. |
| 1:21.0 | At the end of the day, no one was actually forced to go to chalma. |
| 1:26.7 | If you were 75 and you're asthmatic and you went to chalma, well, you know, that would have |
| 1:31.8 | been a bit of a silly thing to do. You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:40.0 | Today, off to the races, hold your horses. A lot of legal decisions in this country are made by magistrates, volunteers, like you and me. |
| 1:59.0 | Working as a team to make decisions on cases in criminal or family courts with support from legal advisors. |
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