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Politics Unpacked

The Day The Times Was Bombed

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

From the first camera to take aerial pictures over Everest to documents from the day the paper's offices were bombed during World War Two, the Times archives are home to decades of photography, cuttings and artefacts.


Matt takes a look at historic items including a handwritten letter from Winston Churchill and Henry Zeffman's Brexit flowchart.


Plus James Marriott and Lara Spirit attempt to list all the announcements the government tried to sneak out before recess, and what it's like to be the first ever Generation Z government minister.



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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley. Don't forget you can listen to my

0:09.6

Times video show Monday to Friday, 10 to 1 on your DAB radio, on your smart speaker,

0:14.6

on the Times video app, and it's now an award-nominated show as well. I've been shortlisted

0:20.7

for Best Speech Presenter at the Arrears, which is like the Oscars, which means I think

0:25.5

I have to punch someone if I don't win. So, yeah, I'll tell you in a few weeks' time

0:30.7

I've lost out to someone from Five Eye for that. Right, coming up on today's podcast

0:34.9

then, I've been in the Times archive, taking a look at, well, they're basically professional

0:39.6

orders, letters from Prime Ministers, books that were bomb-damaged, and a camera that took

0:45.6

the very first aerial photos of Everest, really, really fascinating feature coming up for

0:51.7

you in just a moment, so we'll do that after we do the colonists. The colonists on Times

0:57.7

radio. Yeah, for Five Eye, it means it must be night at the Marriott, but in the night's

1:02.4

not here, James Marriott is though. Good morning, James. Good morning. How may I join by?

1:06.7

Because we don't see her enough. Laura Spitz. Hi, Matt. How are you? I'm good. How are you?

1:11.9

I'm good. Very good. Very good. Now, Laura, you've been digging through the rubbish.

1:17.0

I have been, yeah. Thank you so much for the stars. Yes, so, oh, I think we've got some

1:21.6

been, been related music. So because yesterday was take out the trash day.

1:32.4

Have you got any idea what this is? No. Good. I'm supposed to get young people in.

1:39.5

It's a bit of Lonnie Donigan. Anyway, my old man's a dustbin. It was take out the trash day yesterday.

1:45.6

Laura Spitz, you are our dustbin. What were they taking out yesterday? Oh, in fact, you're

1:50.5

going to go through as many as you can. All of the announcements they tried to smuggle out

1:55.1

bases the last day of term. The government dumps everything out there, hoping people won't notice,

1:59.7

but luckily you are watching so. We're going to give you a clock and you're going to run through

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