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Politics Unpacked

Remembering Clarissa Eden

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

Politics, News & Politics, News

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to author and friend of Clarissa Eden, wife of Anthony Eden, who died this week at the age of 101. 


PLUS


Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch discuss Alok Sharma's COP26 legacy and Christopher Chope. 


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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

0:06.0

champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

0:14.3

in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country

0:20.4

to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon

0:27.1

flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

0:32.5

offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will

0:38.3

be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

0:45.2

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.5

slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Surely. I hope you're well. If you want

1:08.8

to come on the radio and play hugely popular quiz, can you get to number 10? Get in touch with me

1:14.8

now, particularly if you're outside the UK because we always like to have an international

1:18.4

listener occasion if we can. But if you're inside the UK, that's also fine. Email me your name

1:22.9

and your number and a bit about yourself to mat.challic at times.radio and we'll get you on the radio

1:28.0

very soon and you can want to play. Can you get to number 10? Right, coming up on today's

1:32.4

episode at Sand News that Clarissa Eden, the wife of Anthony Eden, has died at the age of 101.

1:40.5

But we look back on her extraordinary life with her longtime friend, journalist and author Hugo

1:46.9

Vickers, really fascinating conversation. The thing that comes up time and time again about

1:50.6

Christmas Eve and people say we won't see her like again. It's that really, really interesting,

1:55.2

just insight into a very different time in politics. That's coming up next, but first a special

2:02.0

extended edition of Think of Witch. Meet the Cerberus of Colomists,

2:09.2

the Janus of Journalism and the ultimate political portmanteau of opinion.

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