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🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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What do Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Tudor, and the future leaders of both the Conservative and Labour parties have in common? They are all the subject of this bumper discussion between Helen and Stephen about women, power and political succession.
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0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
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0:20.0 | I'm David Arullovich. Listen to my new series from Tortoise, Eight Years Hard Labour. |
0:25.9 | It tells the extraordinary story of the double revolution that engulfed the Labour Party after 2015, |
0:31.6 | from centre left to hard left and back again, the battles and |
0:35.7 | disasters that accompanied them and the two men who led those revolutions, |
0:39.7 | Jeremy Corbyn and Kiea. |
0:53.0 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, I'm Stephen. And I'm Helen. |
0:54.0 | And on this week's Hello, I'm Stephen. |
1:03.0 | And I'm Helen. |
1:04.0 | And on this week's news station podcast, |
1:06.0 | we talk about women and power. |
1:07.0 | We talk about heirs. |
1:09.0 | And graces and the labor and Tory successions. So some of you will have heard the advert on our podcast for the play Mary Stewart which is just transferred to the West End. |
1:25.6 | As promised I took Stephen on a New Statesman podcast school trip last night. |
1:30.4 | Now if these people get very cross if you review the production during previews, but I |
1:35.9 | told it would be a really interesting way to jump off talking about a couple of different things. |
1:39.2 | So one of the things that was interesting about the play... |
1:41.0 | Do they get cross if you review it and you say it was good? Because I liked it. No they probably don't actually they probably see fit to |
1:46.3 | overlook that. Well okay in that case my review is I liked it is going on tour it's worth a go. |
1:51.6 | It's very long though so make sure that you have peed literally as close to |
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