Katharine Birbalsingh
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Matt Chorley interviews Katharine Birbalsingh, the new Chair of the Social Mobility Commission, also known as "Britain's Strictest Headteacher".
PLUS: Rachel Sylvester and Carol Lewis discuss the day's news.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy |
| 0:06.0 | champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day |
| 0:14.3 | in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country |
| 0:20.4 | to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon |
| 0:27.1 | flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest |
| 0:32.5 | offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will |
| 0:38.3 | be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step |
| 0:45.2 | towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable |
| 0:52.8 | green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com |
| 1:01.5 | slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Surely. I wonder who'll play me when |
| 1:08.6 | this podcast inevitably becomes a drama. Apparently it's in the times today that lots of podcasts |
| 1:14.0 | are becoming BBC dramas. So let me know, you think it might be playing me. In response to the story, |
| 1:19.2 | the actual times leader, the editorial, praises sort of Red Box. So today's podcast are |
| 1:26.0 | slicker than their forebears. The times would like to think that the production values of its own |
| 1:30.2 | offerings, like stories are times, and the Red Box podcast are unimpeachable. Let's know what you think |
| 1:36.0 | about that. Coming up on today's episode, she's known as Britain's strictest head teacher, |
| 1:40.3 | she's now also the head of the Social Mobility Commission. Catherine Burball Singh speaks to me |
| 1:46.6 | about discipline in schools, leveling up, and why she thinks all children are born with original |
| 1:53.0 | sin. But first of time for a columnist panel, normally it's Libby Rachel on a Monday, |
| 1:57.2 | but no Libby posts a date. So instead we've got Rachel's Orvester joined by Carol Lewis, |
| 2:01.7 | deputy property editor at the Times and the Sunday Times. The first I want to ask you about is |
| 2:06.6 | the politics of Peppa Pig. Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson has been addressing the CBI conference, |
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