Trojan Horseradish?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Can salad be political? Chris Mason joins Podlitical as the election has a rough start, answering pressing questions about salad, BBC hair styling, and all things campaigning.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, you're listening to |
| 0:14.3 | Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that gives you an inside look |
| 0:17.7 | into the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:21.5 | It is 13 minutes past one on Thursday the 7th of November. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm Amy Eigo, a journalist based at BBC Scotland in Glasgow. |
| 0:29.5 | And today I am joined by... |
| 0:31.3 | I'm Phil Sim, I'm a reporter at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Lindsay Bues, usually at the Scottish Parliament with Phil, but today in |
| 0:37.8 | Perthshire. I'm Jane McCormack, political reporter in Balfast. And I'm Chris Mason, political |
| 0:42.9 | correspondent at Westminster, but looking forward to jumping on a train to Falkirk this time tomorrow. |
| 0:47.3 | Oh, and Matt Cox is in the box producing this week. So welcome, Chris. We've watched you |
| 0:53.8 | since you stole our Nick Erdley, |
| 0:56.0 | Nick Who, from an election cast last night. We don't care about him anymore. He's gone. |
| 1:01.8 | Yeah, Nick. All I can tell you about Nick is that Nick possesses the most healthy |
| 1:06.2 | salads in Westminster that he turns up in his little plastic box. But he's also, and I'm deeply suspicious of this, |
| 1:13.4 | the possessor of all sorts of hair products, |
| 1:16.2 | including one, which he recommended I should use |
| 1:18.5 | after I had to use some coffee to get rid of some spikes in my hair, |
| 1:21.3 | which suggested it would give the user a rugged look. |
| 1:25.8 | And I suggested to Nick that if that was the case, |
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