The Year That Was 2021
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The team look back at and analyse the biggest political stories of the year, from the Salmond Inquiry and the mammoth evidence sessions given by the First Minister and her former mentor Alex Salmond, to the recent pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson as discontent in the Conservative backbenches builds. What had the biggest impact on Scotland and the UK's political landscapes, and what can we expect from 2022?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you the biggest |
| 0:16.9 | stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.1 | Full disclosure, this podcast was recorded |
| 0:23.1 | last week, even though it's just arriving on your feeds now. I'm Lucy White, a journalist |
| 0:29.5 | based in Glasgow, and who else is here with me virtually today? I'm Lindsay Bues, a journalist |
| 0:35.9 | based at the Scottish Parliament. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist |
| 0:39.3 | based in my house, thanks COVID. I am Nick Hurdley, still in Westminster at time off talking. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm Rajit Sunday, who should be in Westminster, but I'm also based in my house today. So, everybody, we are using this special bonus podcast as a chance to look back on 2021. |
| 1:00.5 | It was so great. |
| 1:01.6 | We just want to relive it again. |
| 1:03.7 | I suspect most people are sitting there thinking, I want this year to be over. |
| 1:07.2 | Please don't remind me. |
| 1:08.3 | But here we are, listeners. |
| 1:10.0 | We're doing it again. |
| 1:10.7 | And then, yeah, we wanted to look back at just a few me, but here we are, listeners. We're doing it again. And yeah, |
| 1:11.6 | we wanted to look back at just a few of the topics that we covered this year and chat through |
| 1:16.1 | what happened at the time, how it was covered, and any fallout from them since. But, first of all, |
| 1:24.1 | let's listen back to a few of our best bits. We're in the same room, so we're giddy. |
| 1:29.4 | It feels like the things that are to come over the next few days are absolutely massive. |
| 1:34.2 | There is a whole day for things to go wrong with that yet, so I'm not going to jinx it. |
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