The BBC Journalist Arrested in Turkey
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, Laura and Paddy speak to Mark Lowen, the BBC journalist who was deported from Turkey after being arrested in Istanbul.
Mark had been there for several days to report on the ongoing protests that were sparked by the Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest last week. He tells about what happened to him and the political situation in the country.
And Laura tells us about her interview with Justin Welby. In November, he became the first Archbishop to quit as a result of a scandal in the Church in more than 1,000 years, after a damning independent review found he did not follow up rigorously enough on reports about John Smyth, a serial abuser of children and young men.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | So there is a Stooshy Stramash. |
| 0:07.5 | Yes. |
| 0:08.0 | About Wiggle or Riggle? |
| 0:09.4 | Yes, as I understand. |
| 0:11.0 | It's obviously Riggle. |
| 0:12.6 | I think it's obviously Wiggle. |
| 0:14.7 | I think it's obviously Riggle. |
| 0:15.9 | Because then you can say Riggle Room, and then it's automatic. |
| 0:19.8 | But what about Wiggle Room? No, that's wrong, obviously. |
| 0:23.4 | Email from newscaster Gillian, it would usually be wriggle, as in to wriggle off the hook, get away. |
| 0:28.8 | Exactly, Gillian. But wiggle would also be used if you mean having room for manoeuvre, not being |
| 0:34.7 | completely constrained in your actions. So I guess the Chancellor probably needs wiggle room unless she needs to wriggle off the hook and avoid blame. |
| 0:41.3 | Tricky for her, either which way? That's a classically nuanced, sane newscaster explanation. Thank |
| 0:46.6 | you, Gillian. What about newscaster Judy? My son had a headmaster at secondary school called |
| 0:51.6 | either Mr Wiggly or Mr. Wigley. No. |
| 0:55.6 | The trouble was I could never remember which was correct. |
| 0:57.9 | I used to just guess each time. |
| 1:00.7 | Well, whatever it is, |
| 1:02.1 | we know that... |
| 1:02.6 | Riggle out of that one, Mr. Wiggly. |
| 1:04.3 | She's going to need Wiggle Riggle. |
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