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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

What is the situation in Sri Lanka?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Listen to James O'Brien's phone-in show, which will make you think - and possibly change your outlook on the big stories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

with James O'Brien.

0:02.3

Three minutes after ten is the time.

0:04.6

Did you know, as you make your way around the aisles of your favourite boutiques later today,

0:08.8

that you could be the subject of secret filming designed to make you put your hand in your pocket even more than you originally intended?

0:17.0

I'll find out a little bit more about that in the course of this morning's programme.

0:20.5

We'll also, of course, be looking again at the climate group, who or which has really

0:26.4

had a much greater impact on the national conversation than any previous such protests have achieved.

0:34.6

And I, well, we'll get stuck into it imminently but I'm interested in

0:38.9

where the line is between approval and impatience possibly that's even in and of itself an unfair

0:44.8

question the slashy the cult the rise of the slashy do you know what a slashy is I said

0:49.8

slashy not slushy you know what a slushy is do you know what a slashy is Do you know what a slashy is? You could well be a slashy.

0:55.0

You may not even know that you've got a neologism to describe your life. But you do.

1:02.5

And Sri Lanka, what appears to be an Islamist or a jihadist terror attack, make no bones about that,

1:10.1

albeit that the Sri Lankan government remains baffled

1:12.3

as to how a relatively small outfit

1:15.0

that had previously, as far as I can tell,

1:17.6

done little more than defaced Buddhist statues,

1:21.3

deface and destroy Buddhist religious symbols,

1:28.1

has managed to undertake such an epic, epic in terms of scale

1:32.4

and murderous attack upon churches and hotels.

1:35.6

Some days you can't read the news.

1:37.1

I don't know what you're like with this.

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