meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Politics Unpacked

Let's chat about history

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

History teaches us a lot. It allows us to understand how people and societies behave, understand how wars erupted and how pivotal moments in history have changed the world. Historian Dan Snow talks us through everything we should know about the subject.


PLUS


India Knight and James Marriott discuss how a double vaccination could soon allow travel freedom and 'hopeless' Matt Hancock.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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

1:18.6

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast, I'm Matt Schollick. Now, let me know where you are listening

1:23.6

in the world because we like to get an international quiz on occasionally, on the radio.

1:29.1

So if you want to play our hugely popular quiz, can you get to number 10, 10 general knowledge

1:33.2

questions, the more questions you get right, the better the camera job you get. Let me know where

1:37.2

you're listening to the podcast, it could be somewhere glamorous, it could be somewhere boy,

1:40.5

we're just email me, Matt Dotch, or you're at times.com, and we'll get you on the radio very soon.

1:45.6

But coming up on the podcast today, we are living through history right now, but how big a deal is

1:52.0

it really? Will we actually make the history books or will it just be a footnote? Who better to ask

1:57.8

than the history boy himself, Dan Snow, he's coming up as the big thing on the podcast today.

2:03.4

But first we kick off with our comments palette, it's Thursday, so it must be night at the

2:06.9

mario's, it's India night, and James mario.

2:15.8

So, we were going to talk about text messages that you were great sending, but as James

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Anna Covell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Anna Covell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.