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Politics Unpacked

Vaccinderella

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Times columnists Festive Focus Group discusses whether the pandemic would have been better handled by someone else, and what they'd get Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson for Christmas; then it's the premier of the Times Radio pantomime: Vaccinderella.

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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion,

0:06.8

accelerating the transition to net zero.

0:10.7

SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in cleaner, more secure home-grown energy.

0:17.0

That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:25.7

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and

0:30.9

and building the world's largest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire.

0:36.0

When complete, Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy a major step towards the UK

0:46.2

achieving net zero carbon emissions and all this is creating thousands of

0:52.0

sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK.

0:57.0

Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.S.C. dot com slash change.

1:06.8

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast.

1:09.0

I'm Matt Chorley bringing you the best of my Times Radio show,

1:11.8

Monday to Thursday, 10 till 1. Now it's Christmas

1:14.8

week I know it is grim outside and you know where all the news is just pretty awful

1:21.0

whether it's lockdowns or a mutant strain or Brexit or

1:25.8

lorry parks whatever might be so we're just trying to have a bit of fun on the

1:29.8

radio this week so we've got in a moment we've got part two of our Times

1:34.7

Columnist focus group all of our usual columnists all together in a focus group

1:40.4

today talking about yes they are talking about the pandemic but they also

1:42.9

talk about what they would buy Boris Johnson and kids' time for Christmas and then

1:46.4

we've got our Times Radio Panto oh yes we have it's called V Cinderella. It's the story of a man who was locked away by his two ugly sisters

1:58.6

witty imbalance while next door Chancellor Charming was having an awful lot of fun. So that is coming up on the

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