Mitchell on Meetings: The Thing
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4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
David Mitchell investigates meetings from the ancient "thing" to zoom. Also on the agenda: executive coach Sophie Bryan teaches David to chair a meeting; fellow comedian Russell Kane explores how different personality types behave in meetings; and Dutch sociologist Wilbert van Vree sums up several millennia of meetings history.
Producer: Chris Ledgard
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
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| 0:39.0 | Hi Russell Kane here, I just want to tell you about evil genius. It's the show |
| 0:44.5 | where we take legends and icons from history everyone from Henry the 8th to Gandhi |
| 0:49.3 | Richard Pryor Mary Stopes Dr Seuss and I have a panel of funny people who are gathered around my desk |
| 0:56.8 | and are subjected to horrific fact bombs which reveal things about their heroes they don't want to hear. At the end of the lively mind tennis they |
| 1:05.0 | must vote evil or genius. |
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| 1:17.5 | Hello and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 1:21.5 | I'm David Mitchell. You're about to hear the first episode of |
| 1:25.3 | Mitchell on Meetings, a new three-part series. It's about meetings. Those |
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