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🗓️ 30 September 2022
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Venetia Menzies, Data Journalist at the Times and Sunday Times takes Matt Chorley through baby name statistics. Find out which names are the most popular and which have fallen out of favour, and what happens when your name is the same is a frontline politician.
PLUS: James Forsyth and Melanie Reid discuss where the Tories go next after that extraordinary poll for The Times put Labour 33 points ahead.
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0:54.4 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Jolli and well, at least we've all got to the end |
1:01.2 | of the week, unless you're the pound. Coming up on today's episode, same my name, same my name. |
1:08.1 | You might remember a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about what changed during the |
1:11.3 | course of the Queen's reign. One of the things we looked at was names and how many babies have |
1:16.4 | been named Elizabeth during 70 years. Turned out, my name used to be really popular. It was in |
1:20.5 | the top ten. It's now belly in the top hundred. So our brilliant colleague, Venetia Mingus, |
1:25.0 | has been crunching the data to look at names, the influence of politics on names, and how many |
1:30.4 | people named their baby after Simba in the Lion King. It's really, really good fun. That's coming |
1:36.5 | up in just a moment. We'll do the columnist panel as well. First though, let's take a look at what we |
1:40.6 | learned this week. We learned that Angela Rainer wants to change PMQs when she stands in to go |
1:48.6 | up against Louise Koffee. Do that say right? Instead of PMQs, shops, Yeagerbums, you know, I can do a |
1:54.9 | sambooka, any flavour. There's another one called a slippery, I'm not going to mention the rest of it. |
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