Is Rishi Sunak Losing his Elgin Marbles?

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at short notice after an argument over the Parthenon Sculptures aka the Elgin Marbles.

To unpack this disagreement Adam and Chris are joined by historian and comedian Natalie Haynes.

And an inquest into the death of Ruth Perry, a primary school headteacher who took her own life following an Ofsted inspection started today. Adam speaks to the BBC’s education editor Branwen Jeffreys.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Chris, hello.
0:05.7	Hi.
0:06.7	So we're going to be talking about the word Marbles in this episode of newscast
0:10.3	quite a lot.
0:11.0	But I always think the word Marbles is quite evocative of our childhood, don't you think?
0:15.4	I do, I do. I used to have this big box of marbles that were in a tin chocolate fingers box,
0:21.5	which we devoured all of the original contents of and then there was those little ones what were they caught they had a name didn't they and then the bigger ones.
0:28.0	I don't know we were slightly more high-tech with our playthings in my house. Oh really? We will delve into the actual
0:33.3	Elgin marbles. There are some very controversial sculptures which lately are
0:38.9	known as the Parthenon sculptures as a kind of more kind of politically correct description of them and they are the
0:44.2	subject of yet another diplomatic dispute between the British government and the
0:48.5	Greek government which has boiled over in the last 24 hours and which we will
0:52.2	talk about on this episode of
0:53.4	newscast newscast newscast from the BBC why can't people buy a house look at
0:58.6	their wages there are any questions on things that are not related to math people who say
1:02.0	that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.
1:05.8	The era of global warming has ended.
1:08.3	The era of global boiling has arrived.
1:10.8	It's the first time ever, I've been able to say, well done, Kia.
1:14.6	I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house.
1:18.6	The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
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