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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Eight

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this week's podcast: Helen Lewis, Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss Labour, the EU and the George Osborne's upcoming Budget, Erica Wagner talks to Tom Gatti about neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, and Ian Steadman, Caroline Crampton and Sophie McBain ask how a plane can just disappear in mid air?

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0:45.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and this week I'll be

1:04.6

talking to Raphael Bear and George Eaton about European Referendums and the

1:08.2

upcoming budget then Tom Gatti our culture editor will be talking to Erica Wagner

1:12.0

about the story she's written for this

1:13.2

week's magazine about a neurosurgeon and what happens when neurosurgery goes wrong.

1:17.9

And Caroline Crampton and Ian Stebbbing will be talking about airline safety and why so few planes crash. I'm joined by a political editor Raphael Bear and George Eaton editor of the Staggers.

1:39.4

And first of all we're going to talk about Europe.

1:41.0

Hooray, very small cheer.

1:43.0

Ed Miliband has finally kind of come out with his position on the EU referendum and George I'm

1:48.0

going to leave it to you to explain exactly what it is.

1:50.0

Well, the new announcement is that Labour will hold an in-out referendum if there are any new powers transferred from Britain to Brussels.

2:00.5

But crucially, Ed Miliband has made it clear that he thinks this is this

2:04.1

condition is very unlikely to be met in the next Parliament. So what's really

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