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London Calling

To Catch a Thief

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We start off the week with pure thievery – Toby goes to Central London and gets his phone pinched, which meant that he missed Saturday’s march. Not that it really mattered since James had such a good time he doesn’t remember too much of it himself. Then it’s off to the news of the week dominated, of course, by the resignation of Matt Hancock as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Source

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:02.0

I've been to see the Prime Minister to resign as Secretary of State for health and social care.

0:10.0

I want to thank people for their incredible sacrifices and what they've done.

0:16.0

Everybody working in the NHS across social care, everyone involved in the vaccine program program and frankly everybody in this country

0:25.7

who has risen to the challenges that we've seen over this past 18 months. Niles. Welcome to London Calling with me, James Dellingil and my very good friend, Mr. Tobey

0:42.2

Young.

0:43.0

Now Tobes, tell me, were you at the March

0:47.3

at the weekend, the latest anti-lockdown, anti-vax March?

0:51.6

I was not, James, but I've sort of got an excuse, which is that I booked myself

0:59.8

into a hotel on Friday night. Yeah. Because I went to a party on Friday night and in in

1:09.2

Central London I didn't want to come all the way back to Acton and then go back to

1:12.6

Central London the following morning to meet you guys in Hyde Park. So I booked myself

1:18.0

into a hotel but I couldn't it was near Piccadilly Circus but I couldn't find it when I

1:24.4

when I sort of stumbled into Piccadilly Circus quite drunk at 2.30 in the morning so I

1:29.8

was looking for it on Google Maps on my phone and kind of holding my phone up trying to kind of orientate myself.

1:36.0

So I was walking in the right direction, the direction it was telling me to walk.

1:40.0

When some street urchin came running up, grabbed my phone from my hand and sprinted off.

1:49.2

And I ran after him, but he went up, he sort of ran down this side street and when I got to the end of the

1:55.2

side street I couldn't see him but then I couldn't find the hotel I was supposed to be staying in

2:00.0

because I had lost my phone I could have perhaps been more enterprising but

2:03.7

But you were you were terribly drunk so well it's quite drunk so I just got in the

2:08.4

cab and came home and then the following morning I woke up and I realized I had to

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