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Politics Unpacked

Political Lookalikes

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley is joined by Tony Blair, Donald Trump, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson. Well...sort of. Five lookalikes explain what it's like impersonating British politicians.


PLUS: Melanie Reid and James Forsyth discuss British Foreign policy towards Europe in the face of the Ukraine crisis, and whether Scotland could introduce women-only train carriages.



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0:00.0

I'm Alex Dibble from The Times. There's so much happening in the world right now.

0:04.0

How do you stay on top of it?

0:06.0

On the World in 10 podcast, near my team, sit down and go through it all in just 10 minutes.

0:11.0

The Times correspondents join us with eyewitness accounts and interviews.

0:15.0

I was actually on the orthopedic ward, almost all the injuries are shell-fired.

0:19.0

A woman who was inside the police van.

0:21.0

They also give us their unique analysis of world events.

0:25.0

Give the world in 10 and listen. It is 10 minutes to stay on top of the world.

0:31.0

Hello, this is Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Shirley packing my bags off to Scotland at the weekend.

0:44.0

During the start-up show in Edinburgh and Glasgow on Sunday and Monday night,

0:47.0

which means the radio show and their full-the-podcast will be coming from Edinburgh on Monday and Glasgow on Tuesday.

0:54.0

And then I'll be in extra on Friday of next week.

0:58.0

So get in touch if you want to say hello. You can email me Matt.

1:01.0

If you're in any of those places and if you want to get tickets to come and see me live, it's Matt Shirley.

1:06.0

Right, coming up on the podcast date, a bit of Friday fun.

1:10.0

I speak to Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair.

1:17.0

Or at least their political looker likes.

1:20.0

Who hires a looker like? And is it a profitable line of work?

1:25.0

Yeah, that's coming up on the podcast as well.

1:27.0

It's very funny. If you want to actually see the looker likes, go to my Twitter account at Matt Shirley.

1:32.0

Because we put out a video of them so that you can see just how much or not they actually look like them.

1:39.0

Right, before that, though, is that we kick off of our columnist panel and on a Friday?

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