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🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Luke Jones, sitting in for Matt Chorley is joined by the Mother and the Father of the House, Conservative MP Peter Bottomley and Labour MP Harriet Harman to reminisce over 85 years on the green benches.
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| 1:23.1 | From the mother and father of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman and Sir Peter Bottomley. |
| 1:27.7 | Between them, their bums have been on the green benches of the Commons for 85 years in total, |
| 1:33.2 | so will that. Find out what they've learned, what they've loved, what they've hated, |
| 1:37.1 | after we're checking with our columnists today, Lydia Purvis and Rachel Cunlow. |
| 1:41.9 | First of all, on the topic of Harriet Harman and Sir Peter Bottomley, they've both been in |
| 1:46.0 | the Commons for 85 years and I'd like to hear from you. Why the job you were in for an |
| 1:52.3 | absolutely amazing long amount of time or, which I think is more entertaining, a job where you were |
| 1:58.1 | in position for a sort of comedy short period about a time living. Did you ever sort of get sacked |
| 2:04.2 | after two days? Not after two days, no. I mean, I resigned after six months attempting to edit the |
| 2:12.0 | tabtler. My longest job I think was, I suppose it was, it was a BBC midweek programme 34 years. |
| 2:20.1 | So 34 years or six months, that's kind of it. Rachel, what about you? |
| 2:25.2 | I like making sandwiches in a high street cafe that I really enjoyed, but I only lasted a week |
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