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🗓️ 27 April 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:04.0 | I've always thought one of the most revealing questions you can ask a politician |
0:08.0 | is what really makes you angry. |
0:11.0 | I got the idea from David Frost, the legendary host of the Sunday morning sofa for many years. |
0:18.0 | He asked John Major that question |
0:21.0 | and to Frost's amazement and pretty much everyone else watching. |
0:25.0 | The Prime Minister replied, |
0:27.0 | not about injustice, not about disadvantage. |
0:31.0 | He said simply, |
0:33.0 | people being rude to waiters in restaurants. |
0:36.0 | Now you might think, you know, learn very much from that at all. |
0:40.0 | I think you learn a huge amount. |
0:42.0 | That the man who is known as the boy from Brixton, |
0:45.0 | the man who'd seen his father, |
0:48.0 | go bankrupt, |
0:50.0 | and I had to fight to get to the top of British society, |
0:53.0 | still load the idea that he or anybody else |
0:58.0 | might be looked down on and told in effect, |
1:01.0 | know your place. |
1:03.0 | That question of what makes you angry |
1:06.0 | is one that I put to this week's podcast guest, |
1:09.0 | Shadow of Quality's Secretary, Dumbunner. |
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