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Politics Unpacked

When Sport Gets Political

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Is it ever possible to keep politics out of sport? Ed Vaizey looks at times when the two have collided, as well as how AI could change the world of athletics and whether we'll all be watching e-sport in the metaverse.


Plus: Columnists James Marriott and India Knight discuss the extravagance of US politics, freedom of speech in universities, finding joy in YouTube comments, and why group holidays are terrible.



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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants,

0:06.2

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

0:13.0

While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our

0:16.8

global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other

0:19.8

transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.

0:26.4

BP.com slash and not all.

0:29.3

In this week's episode of your history from the Times and the Sunday Times, we hear about the life of Alan Doulon, the blue-eyed French film star once dubbed the most beautiful man in the world,

0:41.0

but who also had links to the underworld, hard-right views and antiquated

0:45.9

attitudes towards women.

0:47.9

Plus a survivor from one of World War II's most infamous failed missions, Operation Market Garden.

0:54.0

Join me, Jane Mulcerins, for your history.

0:56.7

Find us at the Times.com and wherever you download your podcasts. Hello and we're We'll have to be in the Hello and welcome to the Politics Without the Boring Bits Podcast with me Ed Vasey.

1:11.0

We've been having our very own Culture week here on the podcast and today we're

1:14.0

looking at sport. When sports people get political that often goes wrong and when politicians

1:19.7

talk about sport that also often goes wrong.

1:23.0

First though, it's time for this.

1:28.7

The columnists with Knight at the Marriott, India Knight and James Marriott.

1:33.2

I was hunched on my bedroom floor over my laptop frantically

1:36.1

bashing away at my column.

1:37.4

So bad.

1:43.0

James Marriott.

1:45.0

Welcome to show.

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