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🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Ahead of Dominic Cummings' appearance at the Science and Technology Select Committee on Wednesday, Matt Chorley speaks finds out what select committees do, and why they're so important, with author of How To Survive A Select Committee Scott Colvin, Times Diary Editor Patrick Kidd and Labour MP Sioban McDonagh.
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Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss the BBC, Martin Bashir and education.
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| 1:07.5 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chewley, lovely to receive all of your messages |
| 1:12.7 | last week, particularly about that interview with Ken McCannam and Neil Bassow, ahead of my five. |
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| 1:35.7 | episode, big old week in politics this week, Dominic Cummings, I'm not sure if you've heard of him, |
| 1:39.8 | but he's giving evidence to a select committee. What's a select committee I hear you ask? |
| 1:43.8 | Well, we explain exactly what the point of the mar and how you survive on whether you're a witness |
| 1:50.2 | or you're asking the questions and Patrick Kidd times form sketch writer gives us his take on the |
| 1:55.2 | highs and lows of select committees. That's coming up in a moment. But the first we kick off with |
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