Quizmas special: Political Fix’s nerd out!
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Who threatened to launch an aquatic assault on the Dutch town of Leiden? And which political candidate pledged to force water bosses to take a dip in British rivers? Find out as host Lucy Fisher puts the full Political Fix panel – Robert Shrimsley, Jim Pickard, Stephen Bush, George Parker and Miranda Green – through their paces in a big, fat, end- of- year quiz. The panelists also highlight their most memorable moment of 2024 and unveil their wildest predictions for the year ahead. Plus, discover who scooped all the chocolate gold coins in the studio to win the annual Political Fix stockpicks portfolio prize.
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Presented by Lucy Fisher. Clare Williamson is the producer and the executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Audio mix and original music by Breen Turner. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:00.0 | Right, crackers. |
| 0:02.0 | One, two, three, three. |
| 0:05.2 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:07.0 | Yay, yes. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to a special festive quiz edition of Political Fix from the Financial Times. |
| 0:18.0 | With me, Lucy Fisher. |
| 0:19.4 | And here with me in the studio is the entire political |
| 0:22.4 | fix core team, Robert Shimsley, Miranda Green, Stephen Bush, George Parker, and Jim Picard. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello! Hello! Happy Christmas! More singing throughout the episode, please, Miranda. |
| 0:39.8 | The studio is bedecked in tinsel. We've got delicious mince pies on hand, and it may not |
| 0:45.7 | be noon, but the mould wine is already flowing. So dig in. We're going to be looking back |
| 0:50.9 | at a pretty seminal year in British politics with a fiendish quiz. |
| 0:54.9 | My glamorous assistant, Manuela, in the gallery, will be doing the scoring. |
| 0:59.1 | No appeals, her judgment is final. |
| 1:01.3 | And we'll look ahead to 2025 with your wildest predictions for the 12 months ahead. |
| 1:06.3 | Before finishing, we'll end with an award ceremony evaluating all your political fix stock portfolios at the end of this year. |
| 1:14.1 | Let's get cracking. |
| 1:16.0 | Now to start with, before I roll out the questions, I just wanted to ask what your highlights of 2024 are. |
| 1:22.2 | George, how about you? |
| 1:23.5 | I think my highlight was the Labour Party conference and Rachel Reeves' speech. |
| 1:27.1 | And that's an unusual thing to say. In a Christmas episode, political fix, what I enjoyed highlight was the Labour Party conference of Rachel Reeves's speech. Now that's an unusual thing to say. |
| 1:28.3 | In the Christmas episode, the political face, what I enjoyed most was the first five minutes |
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