Prince William joins Mirror Next Gen youth takeover

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Three teenagers got even more than they bargained for in their day working on a special Next Gen edition of the Mirror. Prince William had agreed to do a text message interview over the new Shout mental health support charity launched by Heads Together earlier this month.So Chloe Kennedy, 16, Jaspreet Khatkar, 17, and Arron Manning-Jack, 14, joined Royal Editor Russell Myers in quizzing the future king on bullying, mental health and young people.Afterwards they joined Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper to talk about their experience and how they see the royal family. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the Queen!
0:08.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.
0:11.0	I'm your host Anne Gripper and I am joined by a positive Galaxy of Stars today for a bonus edition of our show.
0:18.0	Because today in the Daily Mirror offices we have had a lot of visitors. We've had teenagers joining us
0:26.6	today from Birmingham, Bournemouth, London, Northern Ireland, Sheffield and Watford to help us put together a very special edition of
0:36.2	the Daily Mirror and also Mirror Online.
0:38.4	Actually, there's loads of amazing things that have been happening.
0:41.4	So I've been running around a lot dealing with all of
0:44.0	all of the content that's going to be going online, but the people I have with me
0:49.1	have had an even more exciting day than I have because when they came into the office this morning
0:55.0	I don't think they thought that they would be chatting with Prince William.
0:58.0	Is that a fair assessment of the situation? Absolutely. So that is what has been going on today. So before we start we should introduce them properly. So that was Jasper Kaka who is 17. Welcome Jasper. Thank you. We also have Aaron Manning Jack, who is 14. Thank you.
1:16.0	And Chloe Kennedy, who is 16.
1:19.0	Welcome. And we let Russell Myers our Royal Edder to come back as well for his good behavior.
1:24.3	Hello.
1:25.3	So Jasper, tell us what have you been doing today?
1:29.1	How did you end up chatting with Prince William?
1:31.0	So it all started with basically we're in a conference together and we're deciding as to what
1:36.6	goes on within the day.
1:38.4	And an opportunity literally arose that whether we want to talk to Prince William and you know when you hear that kind of
1:43.9	big name Prince William you know you're going to take the opportunity with both
1:46.7	hands and we had there we got the opportunity to speak to him via text
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