What is the Funnest Part of the UK?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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In the final Disunited Kingdom of 2022, Matt Chorley puts some of our favourite journalists from around the UK to the test with a quiz of the fun local stories they have submitted throughout the year.
Plus the latest installment of the Times Radio Columnists Festive Focus Group, led by former Number 10 pollster James Johnson. The group nominates their biggest winners and losers of the year.
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| 0:58.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley, and the end of term fun continues. Today, |
| 1:03.6 | disunited kingdom, where normally we do political news for the four-call of the UK, |
| 1:07.8 | we'll do a bit of that. Plus, we find out which is the most fun part of the UK. For the entire |
| 1:14.5 | year, every week, we do political news, and then ask everyone to bring in a local newspaper |
| 1:18.8 | story. I award points for the most fun. Today, we find out which is the most fun part of the UK, |
| 1:24.4 | England, Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland. That's coming up in just a sec. But first, we continue. |
| 1:29.3 | Our Times Radio festive focus groups. The columnists on Times Radio. |
| 1:36.4 | Yes, every day at this time, we always speak to our favourite columnists, but we thought for |
| 1:40.6 | Christmas, we'd get them all together. And with James Johnson, the former number 10 |
| 1:44.3 | polls, two runs our monthly Times Radio focus groups. He's in the hot seat. Instead of having |
| 1:48.7 | swing votes, he's got Times columnists, Rachel Investor, Danny Finkelstein, David O'One of |
| 1:52.1 | itch, Alice Thompson, James Marriott, and Melanie Reed. So, in today's instalment, every year in politics, |
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