Striking nurses. Squabbling royals.
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Nurses across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are striking for the first time in over a century. Lewis has been down to the picket line at St. Thomas' Hospital - just opposite the Houses of Parliament - to ask what the political and economic consequences of this strike could be.
And the last three parts of Harry and Meghan's Netflix doc take us inside a world of death threats, public birth, online harm and press management as we're taken behind the scenes of the row that spilt the two princes. What has this episode, in breaking the code of silence, done to the Monarchy, and Meghan.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | You hear that? That is the sound along Westminster Bridge of cars honking in support for nurses. And I've been standing |
| 0:23.5 | here for the last half an hour or so and it has been almost constant. It's a sound of a new |
| 0:29.4 | fracture, a new crack appearing in our politics. Because although we may have become accustomed |
| 0:35.1 | in the last few months to railway workers going on strike |
| 0:39.3 | and at some point we won't have teachers going on strike |
| 0:41.3 | other bits of the public sector, |
| 0:43.3 | what we've got now, when I'm looking at, |
| 0:46.3 | and what you'll probably have seen by the end of the evening |
| 0:48.3 | is a one in one hundred and six year event, |
| 0:51.3 | a strike by the Royal College of Nursing. |
| 0:53.3 | Nurses don't go on strike. |
| 0:56.8 | And you couldn't actually make the symbolism any better here because I'm standing next to St. |
| 1:01.5 | Thomas's Hospital, Westminster Bridge, and literally on the other side of the river, |
| 1:05.7 | the other side of the Thames, is Parliament, the seat of government. |
| 1:08.9 | And if I were a Conservative MP, I might be looking out of the windows of Parliament, |
| 1:11.6 | rather nervously, onto what I'm seeing, |
| 1:14.6 | because ultimately, if this continues, and we're going to be hearing from nurses |
| 1:18.6 | in this episode of the newsagents, and hearing what their plans are, |
| 1:20.6 | why they're doing what they're doing, if this continues, |
| 1:24.6 | and they say they are happy for it to continue until they get what they |
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