4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair joins Adam to explain why he’s turned into a testing geek – and how he thinks the international community needs to up its game to tackle Covid-19.
Not content with a single Tony, Jo Coburn drops in to update us on the row surrounding Mr Abbott, Australia’s ex-PM, becoming a UK trade envoy. And Amol Rajan on whether the BBC’s new boss Tim Davie can win his battle against bureaucracy.
Studio Director: Michael Regaard Producers: Ben Weisz, Lucy Boast Editor: Dino Sofos
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Big news in podcasting world. |
0:07.0 | Alan Partridge has now got a podcast, |
0:10.8 | which got me thinking, what other 90s celebrities who you can imagine in a sort of |
0:16.7 | leisure wear jumper telling a dad joke could we rustle up I thought Tony Blair |
0:22.2 | hello Tony Russell up. I thought Tony Blair. Hello Tony. Alan Parkridge has got a |
0:26.7 | podcast. You gonna you gonna get a podcast? No and I've had better |
0:31.0 | introductions but thank you anyway. |
0:32.8 | And if I'm worse once as well. |
0:34.4 | That was kind of in the minute. |
0:36.0 | Are you an Alan Partridge fan or is he not really your thing? |
0:38.4 | No, actually, I am. |
0:41.4 | And I think I was interviewed by him at an early stage when I was labor leader and |
0:46.5 | he was doing that in the old days. I think I think there's probably some embarrassing |
0:51.1 | interview material around. |
0:52.6 | I feel a call to the BBC Archives coming up. |
0:55.0 | Here he is, he's dying to become Prime Minister. |
0:58.0 | Mr Tony Blair. |
1:00.0 | When you look across the job, |
1:01.0 | I did you ever think, and I'm going to use strong language |
1:04.8 | here for the benefits of the youngsters, do you ever think I'd not to take a pop of that mother? |
1:10.0 | They've run up on this narrow basis for a few people at the top and what we haven't got is a government that's prepared to build us the type of decent civic society for the many and not the few. |
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