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Politics Unpacked

Pandemic Politics + John Humphrys

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley looks at the impact of the past year on political attitudes with Sir John Curtice and Gillian Prior from National Centre for Social Research.


Veteran broadcaster John Humphrys recalls the Aberfan disaster, 55 years on.


PLUS India Knight and James Marriott on wasting your twenties, and not reading bad books  


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0:00.0

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0:04.7

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0:28.5

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0:33.6

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powering over £6 million a year with clean, renewable energy, a major step towards the UK

0:46.3

achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs

0:53.9

in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change.

1:07.2

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast, I'm Matt Chawley. Coming up on today's episode,

1:12.4

how's the pandemic changed our politics? John Curtis and Gillian Pryor pick over the latest

1:18.1

British social attitudes survey, really interesting, the impact it's had on our attitudes towards

1:24.1

work, benefits and trust in the government. So that's coming up. Also, I've been

1:29.9

speaking to John the Humphries, Radio 4 Legend, John Humphries, about 55 years since the

1:35.6

disaster in Abafran. As you can hear that on the podcast, I trust to work. But first, as ever,

1:39.9

we kick off with our columnist palette, it's Thursday, so it must be night at the Marriott.

1:44.2

It's India night and James Marriott. Morning, India. Good morning.

1:48.3

And James Marriott, morning, James. Good morning.

1:52.2

Now, India, before we begin, we need to mention that you might have to depart at any moment.

1:57.4

Is that right? That's right. I'm so stressed. I'm so stressed about my sheep.

2:06.2

India, explain what's happening in your garden. We have sheep and they live in a field

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