Sunak’s betting crisis, Starmer’s gender row and Farage takes on the Mail
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
With ten days until polling day Amol and Nick look at the ongoing betting crisis for the Conservatives and discuss why gender is back in the headlines for Labour.
They dissect Nick’s TV interview with Nigel Farage, which dominated the news over the weekend after the Reform UK leader said West provoked the war in Ukraine.
Plus, pollster and friend of the podcast James Kanagasooriam is in the studio to analyse the results from his latest poll and answer your questions.
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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.
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The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producer is Hatty Nash. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. Technical production from Phil Bull and digital production from Joe Wilkinson.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome to the last full week of the election campaign. |
| 0:07.9 | You've just made me very nervous. |
| 0:09.7 | The last full week, I haven't done any preparation for election night. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, dear, dear, dear. |
| 0:14.0 | You've been quite busy, haven't you? |
| 0:15.2 | You've got your Iron Man suit ready? |
| 0:17.3 | Of course. |
| 0:18.7 | Ready for that overnight coverage. I've got a tip for you. If you wear |
| 0:22.6 | shorts, everything's much more comfortable. You can focus on the task in hand and yes, I am wearing |
| 0:27.3 | pink shorts. I'm dressed for my today program's upper half with a nice blue shirt and my podcast |
| 0:32.9 | low half. Actually, that's probably far too graphic. Yes, I recommend shorts for audio broadcast. TMI, as my children used to scream at me. I am, of course, in a sober grey suit. But as the mail on Sunday recently pointed out without a tie, which they said was deeply disrespectful of the Prime Minister, but I don't think so. So you've got two more interviews to do, The Greens, which I know you're off to do in about five minutes time. Pretty good of you to be here, frankly. And also the Liberal Democrats. Even bigger news, dare I say, than then, will be that big broadcast debate, which Michelle is hosting, the last one between Rishi Sunak and Kirstam. There is a lot to get through on another busy week on the campaign trail. |
| 1:11.8 | Let's do it. |
| 1:24.3 | Hello, it's a mole in the Today Podcast studio. |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah, and I'm here too before flying off to interview Adrian Ramsey, co-leader of the Green Party for my penultimate panorama leaders interview. |
| 1:35.6 | And when you so at knit, we'll be in friend territory because of the pollster James Kanagosuram, James Kay, as we call him in the pod squad, is going to be here. |
| 1:43.5 | There is a lot to |
| 1:44.2 | discuss, including a betting scandal. It's extraordinary, isn't it? Because this scandal is not |
| 1:50.8 | about the policies of the potential next government. And yet it has cut through possibly more |
| 1:58.7 | than any other story, at least up there in the top two or three in this |
| 2:03.2 | election. And Michael Gove unhelpfully, if you're Ritchie Sunang, summed up why it was going on |
| 2:08.9 | the broadcast media round. He's supposed to be helping his old friend before he steps away from |
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