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🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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If sometimes you think politics seems to trivial this might not be the episode for you.
Matt Chorley assembles three of the biggest brains filled with useful (and useless) facts about politics and only one can emerge victorious.
Showing off their knowledge are Patrick Kidd, The Times sketchwriter and diarist, Esther Webber, Red Box reporter, and Mark Mason, author of Question Time: A Journey Round Britain's Quizzes.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:29.4 | This is the last of our |
| 0:34.4 | Buffey's return to the comments before we get stuck into our buffet of political trivia |
| 0:36.1 | and reminded that tickets are now on sale for two live recordings of the |
| 0:39.5 | podcast. Come and join us in Liverpool at the Hard Day's Night Hotel on Sunday, September the 23rd, |
| 0:45.3 | when we'll be asking have we reached Peak Corbyn, and then we'll be the Electric Cinema in |
| 0:49.6 | Birmingham on Monday, October 1st, asking will the Tories survive and should they? |
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| 1:00.4 | UK and we look forward to seeing you. |
| 1:02.4 | Right, back to this week's episode. and we look forward to seeing you. |
| 1:02.6 | Right, back to this week's episode. |
| 1:04.6 | If you sometimes think politics seems too trivial, |
| 1:07.2 | this might not be for you. |
| 1:08.8 | I've assembled three of the biggest brains filled with useful and useless facts about politics but only one |
| 1:14.4 | can emerge victorious. I'm joined by Patrick Kidd the Times sketchwriter and diary |
| 1:18.9 | editor Mark Mason author, Quizer and friend of Red Box, and making a podcast debut new Red Box reporter Esther Weber. |
| 1:27.0 | Welcome to you all. |
| 1:28.6 | So this is how it's going to work. |
| 1:30.6 | Each one of you has written 10 political trivia questions questions which you know the answer to, but I hope the other two don't. |
| 1:36.2 | If you do know the answer, shout out your name because we don't have buzzers. You'll take it in turns to test each other. If gets the answer they get a point if not the question set it gets a point |
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