The Trawl Meets Zack Polanski

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Marina and Jemma were delighted to welcome the new leader of the Green Party onto the pod.

Will he consider a rebrand? Would he form a strategic alliance if it helped prevent a Reform government and how much ‘banquet balderdash’ would he tolerate from Trump if he was PM? Find out this and so much more in this latest instalment of The Trawl Meets. Enjoy!

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1:43.5	Hello and welcome to the trawl meets. I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Percis and on the Trawl meets,
1:50.2	Gemma and I get to chat with someone we admire and find interesting, and we discuss political
1:55.5	topics they're passionate about and explore their unique experience on social media.
2:00.1	And today, the Trawle meets, somebody who is giving many of us, who have spent the last
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2:32.2	Oh, so refreshing. And on the second of September this year, he was
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