Let Them Eat Turnips
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The environment and food secretary has suggested that - faced with a tomato shortage - people should just eat turnips instead.
It’s all a bit Marie Antoinette but just a bit more depressing.
Today we look at the long-term problem behind our current empty shelves with Observer food critic Jay Rayner.
And on the eve of the anniversary of Russia's second invasion of Ukraine, London's streets are blue and yellow - but is Putin successfully negotiating the West's economic sanctions? We ask corruption hunter-in-chief Bill Browder.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Last week I was in Australia and did a TV program, for which I copped a lot of grief from |
| 0:18.9 | Maitness and Lewis Goodall in particular. |
| 0:22.5 | But revenge is a dish best served cold. |
| 0:26.8 | This morning, Mr Goodall was on TV on Lorraine talking about scheduling sexual intercourse. |
| 0:37.3 | Listen, I put it in the diary, right? |
| 0:39.1 | We need to have sex. |
| 0:40.0 | So otherwise, it just disappears. |
| 0:41.5 | It's a bit early for this, isn't it? |
| 0:42.8 | Never to ever. |
| 0:43.8 | You see your show? |
| 0:45.0 | Come on. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm ready. |
| 0:46.3 | Let's go for it. |
| 0:47.1 | So, Lewis, do you write it on the calendar, on the fridge, on post-it notes? |
| 0:51.7 | Getting married in September. I think it would be a bit of a sad state of affairs if already we were just scheduling this. It's it. But, you know, mind you, take so much effort to organise a wedding that frankly, you know, you might need to schedule. Yeah, well. Some top quality content from me there. Shear variety. I think you actually got the month of your own wedding wrong. |
| 1:12.3 | Yes, I did do that. Sorry, sweetheart. |
| 1:18.3 | So maybe the calendar is exactly what you do need right now. Yeah, exactly. I need a calendar for all things. |
| 1:25.2 | All I can say is listening to that made my Thursday. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:29.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:31.8 | It's John. |
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