Syria, Enoch Powell & Rockin’ Caravans

Where Politics Meets History

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News, Politics, History

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🗓️ 15 April 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Iain and Jacqui dissect the decision to bomb Syria and wonder whether there should have been a vote in Parliament. They mull over whether the BBC were right to broadcast the Enoch Powell ‘Rivers of Blood’ programme and discuss the play with the controversial title of “The Assassination of Katie Hopkins”. There then follows a discussion about snoring and farting in Jacqui’s caravan. And how do Iain and Jacqui like their eggs? Scrambled, runny, or fertised…! And Iain recounts the times he has been mistaken for Rick Stein, Simon Schama, Dale Winton, and, er James O’Brien…

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello Ian. How are you? I'm very well. And do you know, we gave our listeners a Brucey bonus this week, didn't we?
0:10.0	A best-of tapes, wasn't it? It was. It was an 18-minute taster. I called it best-of, but actually it was an award entry submission which we failed to get shortlisted for.
0:21.3	Oh.
0:22.9	Oh great.
0:23.7	Oh, well that's big in it up.
0:25.5	Still, at least Edmelliband did.
0:27.0	It gave him something to say that he's won, I suppose.
0:32.5	We'll keep at it.
0:33.9	Well, try and keep at it.
0:35.1	So anyway, it is something that you can recommend to your friends,
0:38.3	actually. It's only 18 minutes. And we do talk a lot about beavers in it, don't we?
0:42.5	There is a touch of the beavers, yeah. Yeah. We also talk about, we also, you get me to say
0:49.9	more about the Damien Green affair than I'd ever said before. So, you know, if you want to know,
0:55.5	the inside track. Damien, Green and Beavers, let's leave that one-to-one side, I'll just run through
1:01.3	what we're going to talk about on the podcast. We're going to talk about, obviously, Syria,
1:04.8	Salisbury developments, the assassination of Katie Hopkins, which is a play before you ask,
1:10.9	the Rivers of Blood anniversary, which is a play before you ask. The Rivers of Blood anniversary and the shrine for the burglar, Henry Vince,
1:16.2	we might touch on all of those things and possibly even discuss what you've been doing
1:20.5	in your caravan at the weekend.
1:23.9	Well, there's only one place to start, and that has to be the events in Syria over the weekend,
1:29.4	and I suppose over the last week, really.
1:32.1	Theresa May has come in for quite a lot of criticism, I'd say, in the weekend papers for going
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