Knife Crime Myth Busting
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
The New Statesman
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are discussing Britain's issues with knife crime which have been under the microscope in recent weeks. Then, Helen speaks to Anne Washburn about her plays The Twilight Zone and Shipwreck, and what it's like to be a playwright trying to capture Trump's America. And finally, in You Ask Us, Helen and Stephen are answering the unanswerable: what could Christ Grayling do to get sacked?
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| 1:10.0 | You can access its research and reporting at AON.com, search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hi I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the new statesman podcast. This week we discuss the rise in knife crime. |
| 1:34.9 | I talk to Anne Washburn, the playwright about dysfunctional America. |
| 1:38.2 | And you ask us, what would Chris Grayling have to do to get the push. Stephen, let's talk about knife crime. |
| 1:47.0 | Oke-doke. |
| 1:50.0 | Which has been, there's a story kind of just bubbling away. |
| 1:53.8 | And now, as previously mentioned on former podcasts, |
| 1:56.5 | I tried to look at Twitter lest. |
| 1:57.9 | And I tell you what, it's like the Alisian fails out. |
| 2:00.2 | You do people have like full- length conversations in the real world. |
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