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🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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On this day 60 years ago Dr Richard Beeching wielded the axe, closing thousands of miles of railway and thousands of stations. Matt talks to the music mogul Pete Waterman, who lost his job on the railways thanks to the cuts, author Charles Loft, and campaigners who want lines around the country to be reopened.
Plus columnists Libby Purves and Tom McTague discuss Keir Starmer comparing himself to a football manager, claims that Suella Braverman is a 'sock puppet', and the risks of raising the state pension age.
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Redbox podcast. I'm Matt Shirley, bringing you the best of my times |
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0:23.4 | We are talking about the beach and cut 60 years ago. Train lines across the country are |
0:29.2 | cut to try and save money. It cut off lots of parts of the country from big towns and cities |
0:35.1 | and had a major impact on the way that we get around. Now, there are lots of campaigns |
0:39.3 | to reopen them, so we will discuss that, including with Pete Wasserman, who lost his job |
0:45.0 | shoveling coal into trains on the railways. But he went on, of course, to become a |
0:51.0 | huge music in Rosario, including overseeing the career of Kylie Minogue and her son, |
0:56.3 | the low commotion. See, it's all joined up. That's what I hear from that in just a |
0:59.4 | moment. First, though, it's time for the colonists. The colonists on times radio. Yeah, normally |
1:07.6 | on a Monday, we'd bring you liver rate. She, but we've got no weight. We have got Libby |
1:10.8 | per with her. Good morning, Libby. Morning. And playing the part of Rachel |
1:15.6 | Sovester, Tom McTague from Unheard, morning, Tom. Hello, morning. I'm glad we've got |
1:20.4 | you, Tom, actually, because you know my limited knowledge of football matters. And we're |
1:25.8 | now going to talk about politicians and football. Keir Starmer started it with this, speaking |
1:32.4 | to the high performance podcast, being lead to low party or lead to the opposition is |
1:36.5 | a bit like being the England manager, where everybody can do your job better than you. |
1:41.3 | Everybody's got an opinion on your job that you should be doing. I wouldn't have played |
1:44.0 | him at left back, or I don't know what else all about. My job is very much like this |
1:47.9 | now. Everybody thinks they could do a better job and is not very happy to give advice. |
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