Penny Mordaunt: How To Carry A Sword
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Matt talks to Lord President of the Privy Council Penny Mordaunt about her role in the Coronation, where she'll carry the four-foot sword of state in the King's procession. He also heads to the Tower of London to hear about the history of the Crown Jewels.
Plus: Columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Parris on the future of the Commonwealth under the new King, how Turkish elections could change the face of Europe, and whether Dundee cake should be a protected food.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Chaudy-Pini, the best of my times on this show. |
| 0:08.2 | Monday to Friday, 10-till-one, you can listen live on your DAB radio, on your smart speaker, |
| 0:12.3 | or on the Times Radio app, and if you're listening to this on election polling day, |
| 0:16.8 | local election polling day, you can join me live on the radio at 10pm, 10-till-one, |
| 0:22.1 | Patrick McGuire and I taking a look at the local elections and as the first results coming. |
| 0:27.0 | Right, coming up on today's episode, I don't know if you've heard, but the combination, |
| 0:30.5 | if you heard of the combination that's happening this weekend, so I've been to the Tower of London |
| 0:34.7 | to find out about the crown jewels and I've been to see Penny Mordert, the Cabinet Minister, |
| 0:38.8 | who's got a big mole, she's carrying a sword during the combination, so I've been finding out |
| 0:43.6 | how she's been training for that, so that's coming up in just a moment. But first, |
| 0:47.5 | start for this. |
| 0:57.2 | Hello, Mavine. |
| 0:58.3 | Hello. |
| 0:59.2 | And this week's Matthew is Matthew Paris. |
| 1:02.1 | Hello, Matthew. |
| 1:02.8 | Hello. |
| 1:03.8 | Nice to have you with us. Have either of you met the King? |
| 1:06.0 | Yes, you must have done Matthew. |
| 1:07.7 | Yes, yeah, at Dumfries House, which is a place in Scotland that he, it's his project, |
| 1:12.6 | and there was a literary festival, and I was opposite him at the dinner table, |
| 1:17.5 | and next to him was Judy Dench. |
| 1:20.4 | She and I were talking about Lamas. |
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