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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Jed Mercurio One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

Politics, News

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The writer of Line of Duty and Bodyguard explains his approach to writing with authenticity about politics, the police and the NHS

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

The pause in Brexit hostilities is welcome for all host of reasons, not least the chance

0:12.6

to sit on the sofa on a Sunday night and catch up with the latest drama.

0:18.4

It's called Operation Paratry.

0:21.7

Our brief was to embed an undercover officer within an organized crime group, Detective

0:26.6

Sergeant John Corbin.

0:30.4

If you're one of the 10 million people gripped by line of duty, you won't need telling what

0:35.7

that was.

0:36.7

He believed he was on to the top now.

0:39.0

Who?

0:40.0

It's just a coordinate, H.

0:42.3

Hilton.

0:43.3

He was the senior police officer who was running the show for organized crime, Hitch.

0:49.8

It is the latest creation of the great Jed Maccurio, the man behind the bodyguard and much

0:57.4

else besides, who's my guest on the podcast this week.

1:02.2

The Lollin politics, the Easter holidays, hasn't just given us the chance to talk to some

1:08.2

one other, the one of the protagonists on either side of the leave-remain debate.

1:14.8

It's also given us the chance to hear what politics might be like if it weren't completely

1:21.2

swamped by Brexit.

1:24.3

At primary school, in particular, children need the space and the freedom to let their

1:30.1

imaginations roam.

1:32.5

Instead, at the ages of just seven and eleven, we put them through unnecessary pressure of

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