The Politics of Gogglebox
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Forget focus groups, watching Channel 4's Gogglebox can be a great insight into what the nation thinks about its politicians. The show's creator Stephen Lambert tells Matt how the idea came about and how it became must-see TV for prime ministers. Ex-Goggleboxers Steph and Dom talk about their time on the sofa, and Josh Tapper says it led him to want to be an MP.
Plus columnists James Forsyth and Melanie Reid on Boris Johnson and Liz Truss joining a backbench rebellion, whether foreign students should be counted in the immigration figures, and why journalists - apart from James - don't dress as smartly as they used to.
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| 0:58.9 | Hello, this is Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shorty, coming up on today's episode. It's |
| 1:06.1 | for for for three days, so we've got some Friday fun. We're looking at the politics of |
| 1:09.8 | Gogglebox, or speak to the creator, Stefan Dom from Gogglebox. Tell us what it was like watching |
| 1:14.4 | politicians on the show and a former Goggleboxer who now wants to become an MP. That's coming up |
| 1:21.5 | in just a moment. Before that, well, other columnists, James Forsythe and Melanie Reed will be here. |
| 1:26.0 | But as we always do on a Friday, let's take a look at what we learned this week. |
| 1:33.2 | We learned what Liz Truss' lasting legacy is, and it's a white wash, Jeremy Hunt told the |
| 1:38.3 | Spectator Awards this week that Boris Johnson's gold wallpaper had started to peel off, |
| 1:43.2 | so Liz painted over it. I asked David Davis as there were any benefits to Brexit yet. |
| 1:49.2 | No major ones. You've got you've got minor ones. We learned about Lorraine Kelly's niche interests. |
| 1:55.2 | Chatting Kirk, as Prime Minister, spoke as Chancellor. Yeah, and we already know that they can |
| 1:59.3 | work well together. Well, do you love each other? I mean, there's a whole load of fan fiction on |
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