Levelling Britain up for 2070 and looking back on Russia in 1991

The Two Matts

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4.4 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this week's episode, host Steve Anglesey is joined by journalist Suna Erdem who discusses the pan European qualities of a British term - levelling up - and explains what can be achieved in the short term for an issue that has decades ahead of it. Author and journalist James Rodgers shares his first-hand experiences of being in Russia in 1991 during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it was like to see the world he had grown up with change right in front of his eyes. Plus, Owen Paterson MP, Ann Widdecombe and Dan Wooton all feature in the Hall of Shame this week. Enjoyed this episode? Let us know by tweeting @TheNewEuropean

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1:42.0	I'll be joined by Sonor Erdom to ask if leveling up is just a con and how we can do it better.
1:47.0	And 30 years on, James Rogers will give us an eyewitness view of the collapse of the Soviet Union and tell us how the hope of 1991 has been squandered.
1:55.6	But first, do you need a laugh? And I'm not talking about the rumours that the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson
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