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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. Hello and this is new Statesman podcast.

I'm Deptier Helen Lewis and this week Raphael Bear, George Eaton and I talk about trains and infrastructure.

I discuss the controversy around girls with Caroline Crampton

and Ian Stedman and I talk about the probe that has only just woken up in deep space. The I'm joined by our political editor Raff R Bear and George Eaton editor of the Staggars

and this week we're going to be talking about trains which is very exciting.

Raff you went down into the crossrail tunnel. I did and it was brilliant.

One of the best things about being a journalist, there are many good things about being

a journalist but one of them is nosing around other people's business

when it's actually quite interesting and you get out of the office so that I went

through essentially a sort of Harry Potter style portal that's a platform

nine and a half near Whitechapel, which then takes you down a huge

sort of 30 meter chasm underground where suddenly you are confronted with this vast, described it in the magazine's of

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