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Where Politics Meets History

Iran, Brexit & Eurovision

Where Politics Meets History

Global

Politics, History, News

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Iain and Jacqui discuss Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuke deal, and its effect on peace in the Middle East, but don’t worry, they revert to a spirited discussion on Brexit and why Heidi Alexander has resigned from the Commons. Iain tests Jacqui’s Eurovision knowledge (it isn’t vast…) and they discuss next week’s live episode of the podcast at the Bath Literary Festival.

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0:00.0

Yay, it's Eurovision.

0:17.8

Oh, you're saying.

0:19.9

Do you know what, Ian, if they told me that if I voted leave, I could get out of Eurovision as well, I would have changed my vote.

0:29.1

Well, we're going to have much more Eurovision talk, but not right now because we need to leave people on a knife edge expecting, well, I don't know what to be.

0:38.0

Because I always do a Twitter commentary with Julia Hartley Brewer on Eurovision.

0:43.7

And people apparently look forward to it every year, can you believe?

0:47.4

Really?

0:48.1

They need to get out more.

0:49.2

Well, they probably do, but we quite enjoy it anyway. As as you can imagine it will be a bit about

0:57.3

Donald Trump Iran possibly Korea as well we might discuss our award-winning possibly

1:04.5

appearance on Good Morning Britain on Friday I want to talk about assisted dying because I

1:09.3

like to be a bit cheerful.

1:15.9

The House of Lords, Brexit and Boris, and a bit more about Eurovision.

1:17.0

What's not to like?

1:23.9

Well, let's start with Donald Trump and his week because he's really made the headlines virtually every day this week.

1:29.8

On the one hand, he's withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal, and on the other hand,

1:35.9

the next day, he announced the date and venue for the summit with King Jong-un. So yet again,

1:40.8

it's Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He certainly had an up-and-down week. I was in Jordan earlier on in the week, and there's something about being in the region when the US president

1:46.2

withdraws from a deal which arguably has sort of at least maintained some certainty around

1:55.0

Iran's nuclear capacity in the year or so that it's been in place to make you feel the sort

2:00.8

of fragility of that region

2:02.9

and of the potential of pulling out of the deal.

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