When the royals come to town - the reporters' view

Pod Save The King

Reach Podcasts

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The royal family conduct visits and engagements across the country and around the world, taking a travelling pack of reporters and photographers with them.But they are also joined by the local media, rarely royal specialists, who have a different perspective as they get a rare experience of the royals up close.To find out what it is like when the royals come to visit, Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by three colleagues from regional newsrooms.The Liverpool Echo's Max Clements (@maxclementsECHO) was with Prince William on his recent visit to Everton, with Wales Online's Christie Bannon (@christiebannon_) joining the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Swansea as they got their first taste of royal reporting.For Leicestershire Live and Leicester Mercury poitics correspondent Dan Martin (@danjamesmartin), Prince Charles and Camilla's visit was his latest royal outing after previous visits from Prince Andrew, William, Kate and the Queen.They share their stories, what it meant to their cities - and what other people wanted to find out about being there.Join the conversation about the episode on Instagram and Twitter @podsave - and subscribe to the podcast to follow unfolding royal family news. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	Pard save the Queen!
0:35.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.
0:38.0	I am your host Anne Gripper and I am here but I am also not here because I am recording this on Thursday the 27th of February
0:45.0	because I am going to have a week off and so Russell Myers my regular Royal
0:51.0	editor friend who joins me most weeks he gets to have a little week off as well.
0:56.0	But fear not, there is an interesting show to tickle your royal interests this week.
1:02.4	I hope you will agree. So we will be talking about Prince
1:06.8	Harry's return to the UK, which I'm sure you're enjoying at the moment with Megan as well and the very busy schedule of other Royals William
1:16.1	and Kate was running out of the starting blocks in the Olympic Stadium yesterday
1:20.3	which was was tremendous liked that outfit significantly more than the
1:25.7	dress with the weird buttons that she had for the theatre outing on Tuesday night.
1:30.5	But anyway that is for another show. I don't know whether you know, but
1:34.7	the Mirror is part of a big newspaper group. We're part of Reach PLC. What that means
1:40.6	practically is we have lots of sister regional titles all around the country which is great because they do brilliant journalism as well and every now and then the Royals come to town and when they do it is fair to say that our newsrooms do go to town on the coverage very often.
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