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🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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A Conservative prime minister, soaring inflation, strikes bringing the country to a standstill - and Britain hosting the Eurovision Song Contest. Welcome to 1974.
Matt looks at what happened when Ted Heath asked 'who governs Britain', and considers whether Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer could end up following the path of Heath and Wilson.
Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss whether Zelensky should speak at Eurovision, Keir Starmer abandoning his autobiography, and who is Millennial Millie?
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| 0:00.0 | I know this is the web box podcast. I'm Matt Joré, bringing you the best of my times |
| 0:07.9 | radio show. You can listen live Monday the Friday 10-till-one on your DAB radio, on your smart |
| 0:12.6 | speaker, on the Times Radio app. If you listen to this on Friday, as the podcast goes |
| 0:17.1 | out, you can catch me on a vlog I got news for you tonight, which was fun with Diane |
| 0:20.8 | Morgan and Desuay Birch, from me and his nipple and pull map. So there we go. Right, coming |
| 0:24.6 | up on today's episode, 1974, and all that. The last time Britain hosted your original |
| 0:31.0 | behalf of someone else, was back in 1974, the one the other one. So we take a look at |
| 0:35.4 | the music, the society, and the politics of 1974. And my current theory that next year |
| 0:42.3 | might be like 1974 with two general elections. So that's coming up in just a moment, but |
| 0:46.3 | first, as ever, we kick off with the Columnist panel. |
| 0:52.6 | The Columnists with Night at the Marriott, India Night, and James Marriott. |
| 0:57.1 | I was hunched on my bedroom floor of my laptop, frantically, bashing away my column, on |
| 1:01.5 | Times Radio. And we say hello to India Night, hello India. Good morning. And here, looking |
| 1:09.6 | very smart. Thank you very much. I do look pretty good today, I think, in my suit. |
| 1:15.5 | So you've got, what color is it? Is it a black suit, or is it slightly brown? I think |
| 1:19.5 | you'd call it a charcoal charcoal. And he's got a white shirt on and a very nice floral |
| 1:24.4 | tie. My girlfriend got for me. It's very nice. Thank you. Can you see him India? Yes, I can |
| 1:29.7 | see him. I'm extremely impressed. I think he's got a job interview. No, I'm going, I'm |
| 1:35.0 | going for lunch in a posh, in a posh environment. Is it a private members club where you have |
| 1:42.1 | to have a tie? I can't actually remember which one it is now that I'm broadcasting about |
| 1:45.8 | it. I have to check my emails when I go downstairs. Don't say where it is, James, because |
| 1:49.3 | you'll get hauls of fans. They have to, you have to keep in the back door, but obviously |
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