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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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One year out from the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Matt Chorley speaks to Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat and the Muslim Council of Britain's Hassan Joudi about whether Britain should boycott the event over allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, and to Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and the Times' Matt Lawton about attending controversial international sporting events.
PLUS: Times Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves pick over the day's news.
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| 1:22.8 | All of it you can on the Times radio app including Alan Titchmash telling us what he would do if he ruled |
| 1:29.1 | the world genuinely. Coming up on the podcast though a really interesting conversation about the |
| 1:34.6 | Olympics is exactly a year to go until the Beijing Winter Olympics closing ceremony should be |
| 1:41.5 | being held but should British athletes be there. Growing calls for a boycott because of the |
| 1:46.6 | treatment of the week of Muslims we speak to some of those who think Britain shouldn't take part |
| 1:51.0 | we also hear from Sharon Davis the Olympic swimmer on taking part in the 1980 Moscow Olympics |
| 1:57.7 | when the British government had told athletes to stay away. But first it's our columnist panel |
| 2:03.3 | it's Monday so it must be Liber H.E it's Libby Purvis and Rachel Silvester. |
| 2:08.0 | Now then let's talk about the thing that I keep being told that no one is talking about |
| 2:13.5 | and even when I was on me holidays last week I kept getting people tweeting me saying why aren't |
| 2:18.6 | you talking about Matt Hancock breaking the law and I replied saying because I'm on the holidays |
| 2:24.1 | but let's talk now just to satisfy these people at Matt Hancock and breaking the law. On Friday a |
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