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Politics Unpacked

The Kids Are Alright

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Matt speaks to three 17-year-old budding politicians about political TikTok, General Election 'hype houses' and what it's like to be young and political online.

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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion,

0:06.8

accelerating the transition to net zero.

0:10.7

SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in cleaner, more secure home-grown energy.

0:17.0

That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:25.7

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and

0:30.9

and building the world's largest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire.

0:36.0

When complete, Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy a major step towards the UK

0:46.2

achieving net zero carbon emissions and all this is creating thousands of

0:52.0

sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK.

0:57.0

Find out more about what SSE are doing at S. dot com slash change.

1:02.8

Hello, I'm Matt Shirley. This is the Red Box podcast featuring the best of my show on Times Radio,

1:07.6

Monday to Thursday, 10 till 1.

1:09.8

Apache today we talked to Carol Vorderman about the environment we talked to an Australian senator about why there should be freedom of movement between Britain and Australia

1:20.4

But I've been getting down with the kids or at least trying to talking political

1:25.6

Tik-Tock. Why on earth any young person would join any political party and

1:30.1

the battle online for the ideas of the future so strap yourselves in I'm

1:35.8

kidding down with the kids this is how it went.

1:38.0

Tic-Tock we've heard a lot about it but Donald Trump's not a big fan of it

1:42.3

it there are concerns about its ownership but

1:45.6

we're not going to talk about that we're going to talk about the actual content on it.

1:48.5

A lot of the time if you've ever seen it it just seems to be people dancing and digging about to music however

1:56.2

there's also a whole part of it with a political tic-toc is what we're going to talk about

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