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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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With calls for cabinet secretary Simon Case to resign and Sue Gray to be blocked from joining Keir Starmer's team, Matt discusses their fate with columnists Daniel Finkelstein and Henry Zeffman.
Plus: Journalist Rafael Behr thrived on the drama of politics, until he suffered a heart attack - he discusses his new book 'Politics: A Survivor's Guide'.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Redbox Podcast. I'm Matt Chauley, bringing the best of my times |
| 0:07.8 | ready to show you can have some Monday to Friday, 10 till 1 on your DAB radio on your smart |
| 0:12.2 | speaker or download the times radio apps you can take us with you wherever you go. Many |
| 0:17.4 | thanks to the stories of our times team yesterday for the bonus episode, but we're back in full |
| 0:22.4 | effect today, really, really fascinating conversation coming up as our big thing today. Raphael |
| 0:26.8 | Bear has been a political journalist, I think for even longer than me, but in the middle |
| 0:31.3 | of all of the Brexit shenanigans when the whole of politics seems to be blowing up, he |
| 0:35.2 | suffered a heart attack. He's now written a book on the Survivor's Guide to British politics, |
| 0:41.5 | both his own physical as well as mental health, really fascinating chat coming up with him |
| 0:45.3 | in just a moment. But first, as ever, on a Tuesday, it's time for this pair. |
| 0:49.0 | In a world of politics without the boring bits, get ready for Blackbuster debate on Times |
| 0:55.8 | Radio. One is the wise voice of experience. The other, the young genius, learning from |
| 1:02.8 | the master. Together, they are Finkelstein and Zefman, Daniel Finkelstein and Henry Zefman |
| 1:10.6 | on Times Radio. |
| 1:11.9 | Go on, Daniel, what's this? What's this, the thief on? Black faces all round? |
| 1:20.6 | No, the Swedish. The Swedish, correct? Any idea about that, Henry? |
| 1:25.6 | No, I've seen Swinney Todd. Henry will only tell us that actually |
| 1:30.8 | Dennis Warteman once endorsed the Liberal Democrats. |
| 1:33.9 | Dennis Warteman, a big fan of new tricks. Oh, sorry, that's my Dennis Warteman. |
| 1:38.8 | I think the Swinney is one of those things that everyone knows about, but nobody actually |
| 1:42.7 | watched too much, too young to watch. We were talking about this in the office earlier. |
| 1:46.0 | Did you actually watch the Swinney? |
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